Jose Oliva |
Barcelona (EFE) .- The American actor Richard Gere, who has presented at the BCN film Fest as the producer ‘Wisdom and happiness’, says “not knowing what Donald Trump is playing” and perceives that he is someone who “enjoys chaos.”
In an encounter with a small group of Spanish journalists, Gere has pointed out that “nobody knows or has an idea about the attitude of the American president:” I constantly ask, I have spoken with my republican friends, with my friends of the Oenegés, with the Democrats, with everyone and nobody knows where this uncle comes from and where it goes, apart from the fact that I seem to enjoy chaos. “
In summary, the leading actor of ‘Officer and Knight’ and ‘Pretty Woman’ believes that “Trump is someone who loves to destroy things, is like a spoiled child who only likes to destroy.”
Presentation of a documentary about the Dalai Lama
Gere has taken advantage of the presentation of the documentary, in which the Dalai Lama speaks directly to the viewer about how to achieve inner peace and happiness, to talk about Buddhism in saying that “the world has simply been misguided, but we are all the same, we all want happiness and we want to get away from suffering, something that can be seen in insects, in animals, in children and also in us.”
Gere, on this new visit to the Festival, accompanied by her wife, businesswoman Alejandra Gere, has assured that “everything is based on the same, the kindness that you can turn into love and compassion, and that compassion can be further developed towards altruism”, something that Dalai Lama, has added, has developed inside.
Unfortunately, says the actor, we have chosen “leaders who meditate in power, control and darkness.”
Gere, almost an oasis in the desert in the United States cinema world in criticism of Trump, has said: «We had relations with the rest of the world, which were based on many things that we are proud, on human rights, democracy, in the goodwill of peoples and governments, but now their motivation is purely economic; And no one, not even in his surroundings, knows what is happening, nor what he thinks neither what he does.
Gere observes that “China remains very silent, because they know that the world is changing radically and they are benefiting from that change and they hope to occupy the empty space that the United States leaves in the world.”
Lack of critical Republicans with Trump
Fulfilled the first hundred days of Trump government, Gere “horrifies the lack of critical Republicans with these terrible policies, some Republicans who previously defended food aid programs worldwide, for example, and have even arrested food programs in North American schools.”
He adds that there is only one Republican, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, who has dared to vote “against all those idiots and is criticizing those policies.”
Although he never responds about which film is most proud of his career, Gere has said that “probably ‘Chicago’ was the funniest to do”, although “there have been few films in which it would have a hard time.”
Balanceing his “lucky” career, Richard Gere considers that he has been able to “work with fantastic actors and scripts, with good people, with optimal situations.”
About the possibility of directing
With a long career as an actor and also as a producer, Gere has thought many times about the possibility of directing: “producing is very fun, acting is fun, and I have been lucky that I have never treated me only as an actor, because the director sometimes acts as a dictator who gives orders, but in a collaborative experience such as cinema the best directors are those who listen to ideas of others.”
In any case, Gere admires the filmmakers very much because “to make a movie you have to turn for one or two years in a project and I do not know if I would be able to do it because I always advance in several different directions,” he said. EFE
