“The original ending of Pretty Woman was dark and hard hitting,” reveals Julia Roberts

Pretty Woman was a 1990 romantic hit. Considered as a classic the movie starred Julia Roberts, who played the role of a prostitute Vivian Ward and Richard Gere, who portrayed the role of a rich corporate raider and a playboy Edward Lewis. The movie not only gave us one of the most love on-screen couple, but also two memorable performances by Julia and Richard. 

Julia Roberts recently appeared on Variety’s Actor on Actor series along with Patricia Arquette, where she opened up about the movie and its cruel ending. Apparently, the movie was originally title 3000 and the ending was pretty heavy.

Patricia Arquette recalled, “So many, many, many years ago, one of my early auditions was for a movie called 3000. Most people don't know that 3000 was the original Pretty Woman script. And the ending was really heavy."

The 51-year-old actress then further added saying that the ending was in fact very dark, in which her character Vivian is shoved out of a car and someone "threw the money on top of her, as memory serves, and just drove away, leaving her in some dirty alley." 

She further added, "I had got that job, I got the part in 3000. I had no business being in a movie like that, really. I get the part and the studio that had it a small movie company folded over the weekend and by Monday I didn’t have a job. There was only one producer that stayed with the script, and then it went to Disney. 

"I thought, 'Went to Disney? Are they going to animate it? How does this become a Disney movie?' (Director) Garry Marshall came on, and because he's a great human being, he felt it would only be fair to meet me, since I had this job for three days and lost it. And they changed the whole thing. And it became more something that is in my wheelhouse, that what it originally was."

When asked about being re-cast in 3000 now, Julia said, "I couldn't do it then. I couldn't do it now. Thank God it fell apart."

Well, we are also glad that a project like 3000 fell apart and Disney took it up just to change the script and present the audience with its own version of a fairy-tale. After Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts and Richard Gere also starred in Runaway Bride, released in 1999.

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