article_snippet: The 1990 film, which is set in Los Angeles, sees Julia Roberts as Vivian, a down-on-her-luck prostitute who agrees to become a one-week escort for wealthy businessman, Edward Lewis, played by Richard Gere.
article_snippet: Upon clocking the original script, even Julia Roberts described it as, 'a really dark and depressing, horrible, terrible story about two horrible people.
article_snippet: And magical shopping scene, with the soundtrack of  Roy Orbison's catchy Pretty Woman?
article_snippet: In the unrevised script, Richard Gere never 'rescues' Julia Roberts with roses up Julia Roberts apartment ladder, but instead throws Julia Roberts heartlessly from his car and chucks money at Julia Roberts .
article_snippet: Lawton suspects this rewrite was partially down to the casting of the leads Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. '
article_snippet: the casting of the leads Julia Roberts and Richard Gere had auditioned Al Pacino, the casting of the leads Julia Roberts and Richard Gere had auditioned Michelle Pfeiffer, and it would definitely have been a different movie if had it been Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer,' Lawton said.
article_snippet: Julia Roberts and Richard Gere have a laugh as Julia Roberts and Richard Gere remember filming the 1992 blockbuster rom com . '
article_snippet: But the chemistry between Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, it is palpable on the screen, it was palpable in auditions. '
article_snippet: Rapunzel, Richard [Gere] was Prince Charming and Hector [Elizondo - who plays the kind hotel manager] was the fairy godmother.'
highlights_snippet: Julia Roberts plays a  prostitute and Richard Gere, a wealthy businessman .
  