Richard Gere has been married to both Cindy Crawford and Carey Lowell. In 2015, he wed his third wife, Alejandra Silva, who the Hollywood actor has known since she was only a child.
Silva – 33 years younger than her husband – and Gere married in 2015, and since then the two have created a wonderful family. However, the details of their relationship have been largely kept out of the limelight.
In an interview with Hello, Silva has now spoken out, and in doing so confirmed what many fans suspected all along.
Richard Gere is one of the most decorated actors in Hollywood. After starting out working in the theater in London and Broadway, he got his big breakthrough role on screen in the thriller Looking for Mr. Goodbar, where he starred alongside Diane Keaton. A year later, he landed a starring role in Days of Heaven, and in 1980 Gere got the title role in American Gigolo.
From there, Gere’s career stayed on an upwards trajectory, and he became a well-known actor on the rise. After starring alongside Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, Gere became something of a Hollywood heartthrob. Interestingly, he almost didn’t appear in that movie at all.
According to Gere himself, it was Julia Roberts herself that convinced him to do the romantic classic.
“To be honest, I didn’t know if I was doing this movie yet. She’s across the desk, we’re getting to know each other, we’re flirty-flirty, nice-nice,” Gere said in 2015.
“And [director Garry Marshall] calls up and it’s kind of like, ‘How’s it going?’ And I’m going, ‘Yeah, yeah,’ and she takes a piece of paper. She turns it around, and she pushes it to me. It said, ‘Please say yes.’ It was so sweet. And I was like [miming talking on the phone], I just said yes.”..CONTINUE READING