This Friday, December 13, Richard Gere was invited to C to you to talk about his new film, Oh, Canada. He made some confessions about his father, who died in 2023 at the age of 101.
At 75, Richard Gere still impresses. The American actor who we have admired in cult roles since the 1970s returns to the cinema this Wednesday, December 18 in Oh, Canadaby Paul Schrader. He plays Leonard Fife, an American man who took refuge in Canada to desert the Vietnam War. In Quebec, he created another life for himself, in which he became a recognized filmmaker and a convinced left-wing activist. During his old age, while suffering from cancer that would kill him, Leonard Fife agreed to participate in a long interview with Canadian television. He sees it as a way of admitting his mistakes and absolving his sins. This Friday, December 13, Richard Gere was invited to C to you to talk about this role and this film. Pierre Lescure asked him about his relationship to this film, filmed just after the death of his father, to whom he closely resembles.
Richard Gere looks a lot like his father, who died at age 101 in 2023
“My brother and sister haven't seen the film yet. But when they go to see it, they will see our father, a dit Richard Gere. He was much kinder, much more gracious, a more generous man than Leonard is in this film. But I use a lot of the physical aspects of my father. He died at 101, he was surrounded by his family.” Richard Gere's father, Homer Gere, worked in insurance his entire life. He visibly passed on great values to his children before dying in 2023, seven years after his wife, Doris Ann.
Richard Gere starred in Oh, Canada while he was still mourning his father
Despite the pain and mourning, Richard Gere still agreed to play in Oh, Canada. “Paul [Schrader] sent me the script and said: 'Take a look.' It was a few months after my father's death, so I was still coming to terms with his absence and trying to make sense of my father's life and what he had gone through in his last years”, explained the actor to the columnists of C to you. A film to see in French theaters very soon, in which Richard Gere shares the poster with Jacob Elordi and Uma Thurman.
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