WE'LL ALWAYS BE CONNECTED
Woman’s Day Magazine NZ|May 18, 2020
Thirty years after megahit Pretty Woman was released, stars Julia and Richard still enjoy an enduring friendship
WE'LL ALWAYS BE CONNECTED

When movie fans remember their favourite on-screen couples, they think Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers – and Richard Gere and Julia Roberts.

Richard and Julia made two movies together – the smash hits Pretty Woman and Runaway Bride – and always had a certain magic.

“You can fake anything in this business except chemistry,” Pretty Woman director Garry Marshall once said. “When two people kiss, the audience knows if there’s chemistry or not, and Richard and Julia had great chemistry.”

And while it’s rare that the spark continues off-set, these two remain as close as ever. When Richard, 70, and his third wife, Spanish activist Alejandra Silva, welcomed their son Alexander last year, Julia, 52, apparently showered the baby with gifts.

“Julia and I will always be connected,” says Richard. “[I still talk to her] all the time.”

However, it turns out that their celebrated Pretty Woman pairing almost didn’t happen. “We couldn’t find anybody that we wanted [for the role of lonely tycoon Edward Lewis],” recalls Julia, who was then only 21, and had already been cast in the film as the prostitute Vivian Ward.

The actress took matters into her own hands when she and Garry sat down for dinner with Richard, who was 39, in New York City. “I just said, ‘You have to do this movie.’ I kind of pleaded with him in a very real way,” she says.

Richard had become their choice for the role, after a succession of actors and comedians had tried out unsuccessfully.

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