Tourist mistakes Richard Gere for beggar, gives him pizza

Tourist mistakes Richard Gere for beggar, gives him pizza
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French Tourist Mistakes Richard Gere for Beggar, Gives him Pizza, French tourist offered her pizza to what appeared to be a homeless man rummaging through trash on the streets of New York.

French tourist offered her pizza to what appeared to be a homeless man rummaging through trash on the streets of New York. However what she didn’t know was that she had offered her pizza to none other than Hollywood icon Richard Gere who was so convincing in his role for an upcoming film!

French Tourist Mistakes Richard Gere for Beggar, Gives him Pizza

Karine Valnais Gombeau, a 42-year-old Parisian, spotted the actor, digging through a trash bin and drinking a beer from a brown paper bag, as she came out of a pizzeria near Grand Central station in Manhattan.

“I said ‘Je suis desolee [I am sorry], but the pizza is cold’,” said Gombeau, who approached the 62-year-old actor with the leftover pizza. “He said ‘Thank you so much. God bless you’.” The pizza was carried in a plastic 'I Love NY' bag. She left without knowing it was Gere shooting for his new movie ‘Time Out of Mind’, until she saw herself in a newspaper two days later!

“It was magical...It's crazy, this story. It's unimaginable that something like this could happen,” she said, adding she thought Gere, the star of ‘Pretty Woman’ and ‘Chicago’, was “very handsome, even at his age”.

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