The co-star Richard Gere attacked for real during a scene: “I had no right doing that to him”Having been a practising Buddhist since the late 1970s, Richard Gere should be ranked among the least likely actors to get involved in a physical altercation on set, but that doesn’t make it impossible for the red mist to descend on occasion. “I was learning the routines of what I had to do, and I was getting very good at that,” he told Brad Balfour. It just wasn’t happening.”When the time came for their first fight, Gere was ready. “When we came to shoot the scene, I was so filled with the routines and I had it down and everything,” he explained. I was getting pissed off.” Taking the unprofessional approach, the star signalled his discontent by kicking Gossett Jr full force.