Richard Gere has convinced the world many times over that he can play any role. Be it a lawyer who may or may not have tap dancing skills, an officer who really knows how to be a gentleman, or a businessman with a heart of gold, he’s played a variety of parts that have kept the world entertained and convinced of his prowess.
Once hailed as the sexiest man alive by People magazine, no one seemed to notice Richard Gere when he drifted through the streets of New York City as a vagrant for the 2014 drama ‘Time Out of Mind.’
“People would just past by me and look at me in disgrace,” the 66-year-old Gere wrote on his Facebook on Thursday, as he reminisced the lessons he learned from going undercover as a homeless man in the Big Apple.
"When I went undercover in New York City as a homeless man, no one noticed me. I felt what it was like to be homeless…
Posted by Richard Gere on Thursday, 8 October 2015
‘Time Out of Mind’ is another painstaking portrait of an American man in crisis. Directed by Oren Moverman, ‘Time Out of Mind’ aims to reflect how pronounced the homelessness problem in New York City is through the eyes of George (Gere), a mentally-ill man who has been unable to hold a job for years.
The movie, for the most part, is an exercise in what the impatient might define as tedium, as Moverman follows George (as Gere is called) on a daily routine that has been reduced to bare survival: Sleep, eat, keep warm.
The film stars Richard Gere, Ben Vereen and Jena Malone. It was first screened at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.