![]() ![]() The actors brought such a lovability and charm that I didn’t think the audience would want a dark ending, and it didn’t hurt that I am from the school of happy endings." Marshall added: "The chemistry between Roberts and Gere was perfect. It said, 'Please say yes.' It was so sweet. She turns it around, and she pushes it to me. "And calls up and it's kind of like, 'How's it going?' And I'm going, 'Yeah, yeah,' and she takes a piece of paper. She's across the desk, we're getting to know each other, we're flirty-flirty, nice-nice," Gere said in a 2015 cast reunion on the Today show. "To be honest, I didn't know if I was doing this movie yet. He explained that Marshall brought Julia to his New York City apartment and left them alone to chat. In fact, Julia was largely responsible for convincing Richard Gere to do the film. ![]() You can’t really see how it could end any other way, because they just light up with each other." But the chemistry between Julia and Gere, it is palpable on the screen, it was palpable in auditions. "It might have been closer to the original script and maybe not have had a happy ending. Read more: The 30 greatest romcoms ever, ranked in order of pure romantic bliss "They had auditioned Al Pacino, they had auditioned Michelle Pfeiffer, and it would definitely have been a different movie if had it been Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer,” he told Vanity Fair. Eventually, the studio was backed into a corner when they almost lost Roberts to another project.Writer JF Lawton later praised Richard Gere and Julia for putting their stamp on it, leading to a more happy ending than what was originally conceived. Diane Lane almost got the role before the script was reworked, but she couldn't do it because of scheduling conflicts. ![]() Molly Ringwald turned it down because she didn't want to play a prostitute, meanwhile, Winona Ryder and Jennifer Connelly were rejected because they were too young. Laura Dern, Demi Moore, Marisa Tomei, Anabelle Sciorra, Lorraine Bracco, Michelle Pfeiffer, Valeria Golino, Patricia Arquette, and Mary Steenburgen all either came in or considered. Marshall originally wanted Karen Allen, and Meg Ryan was also among his top picks but, when both passed on it, they held open screenings. Many actresses were in the running for the part as casting director Dori Zuckerman recalled. When Disney acquired the script for the Pretty Woman, the actress was already attached to it, but the House of Mouse wanted to cast a more prominent actress in the lead since Roberts was essentially an unknown at that point. But due to the tumultuous pre-production process for the movie, she wasn't locked right away. Interestingly, like Edward, the filmmakers were quickly drawn to Roberts playing Vivian. Fortunately, after Disney and Marshall boarded Pretty Woman, they set up one more meeting with Gere where Roberts adorably begged him to do the project, and so he did. Goldstein was convinced that Gere should play Edward, however. Gere was previously contacted to play Edward, but he also already turned it down he didn't like that the character was toxic and manipulative in its early drafts as revealed in Netflix's The Movies That Made Us. While he had a positive response to the script, he turned it down, explaining that the project wasn't for him. The part was also offered to Al Pacino, who even went as far as reading with Roberts. For Edward, Marshall had a string of stars in mind such as Christopher Reeve, Daniel Day-Lewis, Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Albert Brooks, Burt Reynolds, John Travolta, Liam Neeson, Sting, Sam Neill, Charles Grodin, Christopher Lambert and Michael Douglas. However, before the pair locked their roles, there was a long list of other actors who were offered the lead characters. Despite its unrealistic story, Gere and Roberts' chemistry was so electric that viewers couldn't help but root for them. Pretty Woman became widely successful at the box office, becoming the third-highest-grossing film of 1990. Related: The Best Netflix TV Shows Of 2020 ![]()
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