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Richard Gere Salutes His ‘An Officer And A Gentleman’ Costar Louis Gossett Jr.
A tribute to Louis Gossett Jr. has been issued by Richard Gere.
Richard Gere has issued a tribute to his An Officer and a Gentleman costar Louis Gossett Jr., who just died at age 87. Gossett’s character was originally “written as a White man,” but Hackford said that changed after the director visited the Navy Officers Flight Training Center in Pensacola, Fla., where he learned “many of the Drill Instructors there were men of color.” “I found it interesting that Black & Brown enlisted men had ‘make-or-break’ control over whether white college graduates would become officers and fighter pilots,” Hackford explains.
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