It did, though not quite the way he expected.
“I was so mesmerized, I don’t remember Garry, I only remember the girl,” Gere said of meeting Roberts.
“I still didn’t know if I was doing this movie.
We’re getting to know each other, we’re flirty, flirty, nice, nice.
She’s across the desk, she takes a piece of paper, and she’s writing something on it and she turns it around and pushes it to me.”
The note read just three words: “Please say yes.”
“I said ‘yes!’ It was so sweet!” Gere recalled.
That single note set the stage for one of the most iconic on-screen pairings in film history, and decades later, it’s hard to imagine Pretty Woman ever not happening at all. 💫