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Richard Gere Chose to 'Step Back' from Fame and Attention in '90s: 'I Don't Wanna Be Looked At'

Richard Gere opened up about his relationship with fame, recalling that after the success of 1990 films ‘Internal Affairs’ and ‘Pretty Woman,’ he made a choice 'to step back': 'I don't really like all this attention....I don't wanna be looked at.’

Particularly after the back-to-back success of 1990 films Internal Affairs with Andy García and Pretty Woman with Julia Roberts, Gere, now 75, made “a subconscious choice on my part to step back” and act in lower-profile projects, he recalled to host Scott Feinberg. Breaking out in 1980's American Gigolo and 1982's An Officer and a Gentleman, Gere initially worked in regional theater and on Broadway before booking a film debut in 1977's Looking for Mr. Goodbar. He starred in the film Longing with Diane Kruger and Showtime TV drama The Agency(which premiered its first episode Nov. 29), and reunited with American Gigolo director Paul Schrader for Oh, Canada(in theaters now) opposite Jacob Elordi.

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