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.
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