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Yowza -- the way Richard Gere walks


NO ONE moves like him, he's like a panther, a hot, unbelievably sexy panther! LOL:)

Carrie Lowell is the luckiest woman on Earth. He worships her in all his interviews and he's hooooot.

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...but we never came close to getting any of the women he did!

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While I've always thought Gere was attractive/rather sexy, this is really the only movie I found him to be unbelievably sexy. I mean....daaaaamn!

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I could watch him drive a convertible for hours. But yes, the way he walks is the best ever in all his movies. He always looks awesome but he was really hot in "Primal Fear," many years after "American Gigolo." He just gets better with age. Panther is a good comparison. I adore him and always will.

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Agreed, he is really hot in this movie

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I thought he had a feminine walk at least in the scene in which he went into that record store. Though I thought he Armani wardrobe was probably the best ensemble ever put to film, in the record store scene he had a blue shirt on with very tightly rolled sleeves. The jeans and the walk I felt were decidedly gay. I think the director (and Gere) was to some extent going for this to try and make the audience question his true sexual orientation. There were other scenes and dialogue to play up the possibility that Julian may be a homosexual too. But I thought his walk was pretty flamboyant in this scene.

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Very agreed, we're definitely supposed to wonder if he's gay/bi, esp. after he tells the black pimp off and says everything he says. His walk seemed esp. swishy to me when he gets out of the Mercedes and walks up the hill to the mansion.

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Whatever, it worked with the ladies.

"Two more swords and I'll be Queen of the Monkey People." Roseanne

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It took me years of watching Gere's work to notice he did a good acting job in this movie. If your a male hooker your going to do gay too. So the way he walks and acts is very good acting since he doesn't act like this in any of his other movies.

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He walks like a male model on a catwalk/runway.

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He walks like a male model on a catwalk/runway.


This. I think someone mentioned this somewhere, I'm not sure where but in an interview.

"I'm the ultimate badass,you do NOT wanna f-ck wit me!"Hudson,Aliens😬

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Mark Kermode said it in one of those list programs (think it was 100 greatest movie stars)

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