In New York, Richard Gere was filming “Time Out of Mind” when a Parisian visitor mistook him for a homeless guy. In 2014, Gere starred in the film alongside Kyra Sedgwick and Steve Buscemi.
The renowned and gifted actor,74, was portraying a mentally ill man who had been evicted from his residence and was now living on the streets.
He was supposed to play a homeless man in a movie scene, and in that scenario, he dressed in rags and sat on the street, passing thousands of people.
“I was in character and out there for the first shot for over forty minutes – no one made eye contact with me,” he remarked. I was in one of New York’s busiest areas. I wouldn’t have lasted 30 seconds if I were Richard Gere there.
“People’s projections of what they saw from my body language and where I was in the street filled in these spaces with an incorrect story, because I wasn’t the movie star,” the well-known actor explained.
Nobody offered him any money. Not even a single person acknowledged him. And that demonstrated the main point: despite their presence, we are blind to the homeless. The film’s director, Oren Moverman, revealed.
Following the film, Richard Gere posted something on social media using Jenna Malone, his co-star. This is the article:
Hello, this is Richard Gere. I was shocked to learn that last week someone had shared a picture of me looking like a homeless man on the streets of New York on a Facebook fan page.
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