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‘Oh, Canada’ Star Richard Gere And Director Paul Schrader Explain Why The ‘American Gigolo’ Reunion Took So Long: “The Right Thing Hadn’t Occurred”
‘Oh Canada’ star Richard Gere and director Paul Schrader explain why the ‘American Gigolo’ reunion took so long: 'The right thing hadn't occurred.'
Men in crisis are pretty much a given in Schrader’s films, and it formed the basis of his and Gere’s first project together — the subversive 1980 neo-noir American Gigolo, which brought Paramount a small fortune for its modest outlay and made the actor an overnight star as a slick West Coast escort framed in a murder plot. It’s taken 45 years for the two to come back together again, and, although it couldn’t be more different in style, the result of this reunion — Oh, Canada, based on the 2021 novel Foregone by Russell Banks — may yet be viewed as a bookend, telling a similar story of a man forced into a reckoning with his own ego. Gere plays acclaimed documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, who, in the face of a terminal illness, has decided to reveal the unvarnished truth about his life — warts and all — to an intimate film crew in the presence of his long-suffering wife Emma (Uma Thurman).
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