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RICHARD GERE SAYS THERE’S A NEW SEX-SYMBOL IN TOWN


June 10, 2002
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Hollywood star Richard Gere says he’s having a hard time fighting off an image that has dogged him since his breakthrough role in the 1980 movie American Gigolo – that of being a sex-symbol.

The 52-year old actor, who was in Madrid on Monday to promote his latest film Unfaithful, in which he plays a husband whose wife has an adulterous fling, said many people found it hard to imagine him swapping his heart-throb status for the role of a cuckold.

“Everyone keeps asking me about that,” joked the actor. “Wait a minute, you are the gigolo, how can there be another gigolo?

“But the truth is Olivier is much better than me. I guarantee all the ladies in the room, he is much better,” Richard continued, referring to his co-star in the movie, Frenchman Olivier Martinez.

On current release across the UK, Unfaithful centres on Diane Lane and Richard Gere as a couple living in the New York city suburbs whose marriage goes dangerously awry when the wife has an affair with a younger man.

Photo: © Alphapress.com
Hollywood actor Richard Gere says people found it hard to imagine him swapping his heart-throb status for the role of a cuckold in the film Unfaithfuly
Photo: © Alphapress.com
Directed by Briton Adrian Lyne, the film centres on the upheaval experienced by Richard when he discovres that his wife is having an affair with another man, played by French actor Olivier Martinez

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