Overview
- In a Deadline interview published Jan. 6, Roberts said it would be “impossible” now because she carries “too many years of the weight of the world.”
- She explained she could no longer capture the character’s youthful innocence, calling that “a funny thing to say about a hooker.”
- Roberts pointed to a “huge passage of time” and changing norms that alter how the film is interpreted decades later.
- Coverage revisited the project’s origins as a grittier script titled 3,000 before Disney stayed with it and Garry Marshall reshaped it into a romantic comedy.
- Pretty Woman starred Roberts as Vivian, a sex worker, opposite Richard Gere as businessman Edward Lewis.