Richard Gere and Felicity Jones: Two Awards Contenders Look Back and Look Ahead
The Hollywood ReporterStory by Lexy Perez
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Seasoned actors Richard Gere and Felicity Jones reflect on their storied careers and latest challenging roles, offering an insider's look at Hollywood's awards season.
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- Richard Gere, a big-screen leading man for nearly 50 years, shares how his transition from theater to film was cemented by his starring role in the gritty 1975 play 'Killer's Head', which he says was a 'decisive moment' in connecting with a contemporary character.
- Felicity Jones, an Oscar-nominated actress known for playing powerful women behind brilliant but troubled men, reveals the intricate research she undertook to authentically portray a wheelchair-bound Holocaust survivor in the ambitious drama 'The Brutalist', which is generating major awards buzz.
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Richard Gere, Felicity Jones, Sam Shepard, Paul Schrader, Russell Banks, Terrence Malick, Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold, Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Eddie Redmayne, Mads Mikkelsen, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Eugene O'Neill Provincetown Playhouse, Paramount, Buena Vista, Killer's Head, American Gigolo, Oh, Canada, Foregone, Days of Heaven, Internal Affairs, Pretty Woman, Primal Fear, Unfaithful, Chicago, The Theory of Everything, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Brutalist