Richard Gere on Obama disappointment

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:30:00 +0000

Richard Gere has been in terrific movies and he’s been an A-list Hollywood leading man, but the peculiar curse of his career is that he’s rarely or never done both at the same time. I suppose that accounts for the fact that across four-plus decades and 40-odd movie roles, Gere has never been nominated for an Oscar and was often portrayed, at least in his youth, as a lightweight pretty boy – as if the character he played in Paul Schrader’s underrated “American Gigolo” in 1980 were actually him. It’s difficult, frankly, to pick a role in Gere’s long career that plausibly might have won him a statuette; both “Gigolo” and “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” were too sleazy for the Academy, and Terrence Malick’s “Days of Heaven” was way too arty. Billy Flynn in “Chicago”? I guess that’s the one.

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Richard Gere on Obama disappointment