The Jerusalem Post reports: Richard Gere was in Israel on Thursday afternoon talking about peace, playing a Jewish New York fixer and his movie “bromance” with a fictional Israeli prime minister.
The star of the movie Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, which just opened throughout the country, spoke at a press conference at the Jerusalem Cinematheque with director Joseph Cedar and his co-star Lior Ashkenazi, and later at a master class for film students together with Cedar.
Gere was relaxed, joking about being the only one in the room who didn’t know Hebrew, and spoke in earnest about his meeting with peace groups earlier in the week, including Women Wage Peace, and his hope that “something good” would come out of his acting in an American-Israeli film.
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