Julia Roberts says 'Pretty Woman' originally had a much darker ending
'I had no business being in a movie like that'
'I had no business being in a movie like that'
It's the romantic comedy ending seen 'round the world: A slightly bashful Richard Gere as Edward arrives with an armful of roses to declare his love to ' Vivian. The final minutes of "" are swoon-worthy, a knight coming to save the damsel in distress in chariot 바카라 게임 웹사이트 though in this case, said chariot was a limousine.
That singular scene went on to define dozens of romantic comedies after it, films searching for equally gratifying ways to wrap up their love stories. But in a recent Actors on Actors interview , Roberts and actress Patricia Arquette 바카라 게임 웹사이트 who also auditioned for the part of Vivian 바카라 게임 웹사이트 revealed that "Pretty Woman" almost had an entirely different ending. And this one was far from a happily ever after.
"So many, many, many years ago, one of my early auditions was for a movie called '3,000,'" Arquette said during their sit-down. "Most people don바카라 게임 웹사이트t know that '3,000' was the original 'Pretty Woman' script. And the ending was really heavy."
Roberts confirmed the "heavy" ending, adding that instead of Edward's romantic moment, in an alternate universe he: "Threw [Vivian] out of the car, threw the money on top of her, as memory serves, and just drove away, leaving her in some dirty alley."
Arquette added that the original script "really read like a gritty art movie. When you first read it, it was that incarnation."
But then, the small movie company that was producing what was then called "3,000" folded, and eventually, the movie became "Pretty Woman" as we now know it, which Roberts says was "something that is in my wheelhouse."
Though Arquette said she would love to remake the original, darker version of "Pretty Woman" now and cast Roberts in it, Roberts maintained: "I had no business being in a movie like that."