They have just celebrated the 25th anniversary of the premiere of Autumn in New Yorkthe film directed by Joan Chen in which Richard Gere y Winona Ryder They live a fleeting but intense romance as Will Keane and Charlotte Fielding. The Big Apple witnesses the relationship that arises between two people from very different backgrounds, with a large age difference between them and which is condemned to a quick expiration date for her health.
“I’ve been working since I was 12, you just go to work and do the work and sometimes you forget to look around and see what an amazing place you were in. That old phrase ‘stop and smell the flowers’ or ‘enjoy the moment’ we forget. (…) If we found out that we only have a certain amount of time left to live, we would want to experience everything, we would want to make everything as tangible as possible,” explained the actress in an interview given in the midst of promoting the film, in which she said she agreed to participate precisely attracted by the awareness of the time that her role required her to take.
Winona Ryder and Richard Gere embarked on this film that did not enjoy very good reviews as they were two big Hollywood stars. The first was already famous since the beginning of the 90s for titles such as Edward Scissorhands, Bitelchús and Realy Bites; and the second came from succeeding with jobs on the big screen such as American Gigolo, The First Knight, The Two Faces of the Truth o Pretty Woman.
Both therefore shared celebrity status, something that could have caused havoc between them during filming. At least that’s what the rumor mill of the time said, which claimed that Richard Gere had asked the writers for more screen time for him, something that the interpreter took it upon herself to deny, according to The Guardian: “We’re together in 90% of the scenes, so It’s ridiculous to think that Richard would ask for more dialogue. “That’s the kind of stupid rumor that has no basis in reality,” the actress said.
Richard Gere and Winona Ryder in the film Autumn in New York.
The reality is that Winona Ryder and Richard Gere got along very well from the moment they met, as the American interpreter herself recounted in the aforementioned 2000 interview: “From minute one we got along very well” he said. “He is, he is really kind, very generous and has great ideas. “He’s relaxed in the way he works, he’s open and he’s as beautiful on the inside as he is on the outside,” he added of his co-star.
