has revealed the ending dark ending Pretty Woman was originally supposed to have – and it’s far from pretty.
Roberts opened up about the iconic 1990 romantic comedy that shot her to stardom in an Variety interview with Patricia Arquette that’s set to air this week.
Arquette had auditioned for the movie under its original title, 3000. While the modern Cinderella story we know and love 30 years later – which sees prostitute Vivian Ward (Roberts) falls in love with her businessman client Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) – had a fairy tale ending, that’s not how the script started out.
In the Variety interview airing this week, Arquette described the movie she auditioned for as ‘really dark’.
‘The ending was really heavy,’ she said. ‘It really read like a dark gritty art movie.’
Roberts went on to describe how Gere’s character tossed hers out of the car, ‘threw the money on top of her, as memory serves, and just drove away, leaving her in some dirty alley’.
Roberts is seen playing the character of Vivian Ward opposite Richard Gere’s Edward Lewis in the 1990s romantic comedy that shot her to fame. The actress said in the original script, Gere’s character tossed hers out of the car, ‘threw the money on top of her, as memory serves, and just drove away, leaving her in some dirty alley’
