Richard Gere sits down with me for the latest episode in my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side. The occasion is his rare sojourn into television, particularly a series (previously he had been in only one other series, a 2019 British show in 2019 called MotherFatherSon). In the current Paramount + series The Agency, Gere stars opposite Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner-Smith and a sterling ensemble cast.
Gere, who lives in Spain these days, has been called “one of the best actors never to have received an Oscar nomination,” and is of course for decades one of film’s leading lights on the big screen with credits including American Gigolo, An Officer and a Gentleman, Looking For Mr. Goodbar, Days of Heaven, Yanks, The Cotton Club, Pretty Woman The Jackal, Chicago (for which he won a Golden Globe), Primal Fear, Shall We Dance, Hachi: A Dog’s Tale, Norman, Oh Canada and countless others since making his motion picture debut in 1975’s Report to the Commissioner.
In this wide-ranging discussion we talk about many of those films and roles, what he thinks of them now, why he decided to tackle a TV series and why The Agency is right for this moment, his early years in theatre, how he still looks so good, his move away from Hollywood, his love for independent filmmaking, celebrating 50 years in movies and looking back at age 75.
To watch our conversation and to get the “actor’s side” of things from Richard Gere, watch the video above.
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