{"id":474707,"date":"2025-10-05T00:32:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/474707\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T00:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:32:23","slug":"the-co-star-richard-gere-attacked-during-a-scene-i-had-no-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/474707\/","title":{"rendered":"The co-star Richard Gere attacked during a scene: “I had no right”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Richard<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy)<\/p>\n

Tue 30 September 2025 18:15, UK <\/p>\n

Having been a practising Buddhist since the late 1970s, Richard Gere<\/a> should be ranked among the least likely actors to get involved in a physical altercation on set, but that doesn\u2019t make it impossible for the red mist to descend on occasion.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d already had a notable run-in with a fellow future star when he was fired from The Lords of Flatbush after a lunchtime mishap involving chicken grease and mustard saw him fighting with Sylvester Stallone, igniting a feud between them that lasted for years and even led the Rocky and Rambo legend to hint that Gere holds him responsible for starting the infamous gerbil rumour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That was far from the last time he\u2019d run afoul of a colleague, with Gere\u2019s Zen-like approach to life not always reflected in his on-set behaviour. He clashed with Bruce Willis<\/a> when they worked together on The Jackal, and he didn\u2019t get along with Debra Winger on the set of An Officer and a Gentleman either.<\/p>\n

She wasn\u2019t even the only cast member he pissed off while shooting Taylor Hackford\u2019s classic romantic drama, with the leading man finding himself so in the zone ahead of a staged brawl that he booted Louis Gossett Jr for real, which understandably caused his scene partner to storm off the set in a furious rage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was learning the routines of what I had to do, and I was getting very good at that,\u201d he told Brad Balfour<\/a>. \u201cI was proud of that. That\u2019s all I could do, but I was learning the routines. But Lou was also learning karate as he was in this. But for some reason, he wasn\u2019t able to get the routines. It just wasn\u2019t happening.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the time came for their first fight, Gere was ready. \u201cWhen we came to shoot the scene, I was so filled with the routines and I had it down and everything,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe started shooting the scene, and he was struggling with it. I was getting pissed off.\u201d Taking the unprofessional approach, the star signalled his discontent by kicking Gossett Jr full force.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hit him in the gut. He said, \u2018OK, that\u2019s it. I\u2019m out of here\u2019, and he left. And rightly so,\u201d he added. \u201cI had no right doing that to him. And he left, and he was serious, he wasn\u2019t coming back.\u201d Obviously, he did come back, and he even won an Academy Award for \u2018Best Supporting Actor\u2019<\/a> for his troubles, but he wasn\u2019t exactly desperate to go toe-to-toe with Gere again to finish the scene.<\/p>\n

With Gossett standing at an imposing six-foot-four, Hackford had to make some desperate calls to casting agencies to find a suitable stand-in. He didn\u2019t return to the Officer and a Gentleman set for another two days, but in the meantime, Gere confessed that \u201cwe shot a lot of that sequence with a double\u201d in his co-star\u2019s absence, \u201cbut you can\u2019t tell.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the end, Gere tried to be the bigger man, taking \u201cfull credit for having messed up,\u201d and audiences probably didn\u2019t even notice that a lot of their confrontation was captured while Gossett Jr wasn\u2019t even there, and they definitely didn\u2019t know that Gere\u2019s wayward feet were the reason why.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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