Richard Gere admits to screwing up his career – he had to “crawl a little bit” to get scripts
Richard Gere: From Heartthrob to Hollywood Outsider Richard Gere rose to global fame with Pretty Woman, becoming a beloved heartthrob. But his career has been anything but ordinary—at one point, he was nearly blacklisted from major films and turned to independent cinema instead. Born in 1949 in Philadelphia and raised near Syracuse, NY, Gere had…