Richard Gere Says Pretty Woman Was Rubbish, Which Means You’re Rubbish

Tibet and gerbil lover, Richard Gere won millions of fans when he played Edward Lewis in Pretty Woman. We say 'fans', we actually mean 'women'. They loved him in that. A ruthless bastard with a prostitute and loads of money! 

Some women have wonderful taste in men, don't they?

Either way, Gere doesn't care. He doesn't care at all because he hates Pretty Woman, which means he probably thinks you're massively stupid for liking it. Why aren't you meditating and saying China Is Shit or something?

Talking about the stupid movie, Gere said:

"People ask me about that movie but I've forgotten it. That was a silly romantic comedy."

He also reckons that his character is responsible for the world's financial woes.

"It made those guys seem dashing, which was wrong. Thankfully, today, we are all more sceptical of those guys."

Still, at least he's not slagging off women like his character in Pretty Woman. Right? Wrong. Gere is dismissive about his exes (which count Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Cindy Crawford and Priscilla Presley).

"In the 1980s, relationships were all about status."

So he's all heart and conscience now, is he? Course he is! He's bored and wealthy! That's all you have left when the hits dry up isn't it? And now he shares his simmering resentment for the rest of humanity with The Love Of His Life, Carey Lowell.

"She has given me a very clear conscience of what is right and wrong. I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff. I know now that I would rather have something that is true, something that is based on real love."

Well, give us paupers all your money and you can live with your romantic notion of real love in a mildew riddled hovel above a kebab shop and we'll shag models and travel around in a hovercraft made out of tigers.

Deal?