Richard Gere’s ‘Pretty Woman’ character is dead

Julia Roberts may have played a hooker with a heart of gold in 1990’s “Pretty Woman,” but she doesn’t believe that her character’s love story would have survived 2023.

In the rom-com, the Oscar winner, 56, played stripper Vivian Ward, who falls in love with businessman Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) after he hires her for a week.

The “Erin Brockovich” actress chatted with “CBS Mornings” on Tuesday, where she was asked where Edward and Vivian’s romance would be today.

“I think he passed away peacefully in his sleep from a heart attack, smiling,” Roberts told host Gayle King. “And now she runs his business.”

Roberts then gave her take on what some of her other iconic characters would be doing in the present day.

Gere, 74, also starred with the “Mona Lisa Smile” star in 1999’s “Runaway Bride,” with Roberts actually believing that this couple would remain in love.

“[Gere] doesn’t die in this one,” she quipped. “They’re gonna stay together.”

As for her “Mystic Pizza” character Daisy and her boyfriend Charles (Adam Storke), Roberts said: “Let’s hope they’re still together and they have a bunch of cute little kiddos.”

In “Notting Hill,” she played a famous actress who crosses paths with a quiet British bookshop owner (Hugh Grant).

Roberts explained that her role of Anna would be “retired.”

“She has six children and has maintained her waist size, amazingly,” she said. “He runs the bookshop still. And now there’s a little knitting annex to the bookshop that she runs.”

In 1993, she appeared alongside Denzel Washington in “The Pelican Brief.” The drama encompasses a young law student (Roberts) whose legal brief about the killing of two Supreme Court judges forces her to go on the run. Her journey is aided by a journalist (Washington), who helps her unravel a political conspiracy.

She noted that by the flick’s conclusion, “They’re absolutely together.” King chimed in: “They’re watching TV. She’s watching him on TV.”

“Yeah. And then the journalist says, ‘Well, your source seems too good to be true,’ ” Roberts went on. “And he says, in a way that only Denzel can, ‘She just might be.’ And then in slow motion, I put my head down with my cheeks pink, and that says it all to me.”

“I think he’s in love with her,” the Georgia native continued. “She’s in love with him.”

Roberts has been taking a walk down rom-com memory lane recently, dishing that she would be down to do a sequel to her 1997 flick “My Best Friend’s Wedding.”

She revealed this on a recent episode of “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.”

“That’s a really good question, and I’ve never been asked it,” Roberts said when asked which of her films she would like to revisit. 

In “My Best Friend’s Wedding,” she starred as a food writer named Jules who is in love with her best friend, Michael (Dermot Mulroney), and rushes to tell him before he ties the knot with his girlfriend Kimmy (Cameron Diaz).

In the sequel, the “Gaslit” star claimed that because “there are so many people” in the first movie, she would want “to see what they’re doing and how Kimmy and Michael’s marriage is going.”