Richard Gere seems to have found a second career in Italy after the glamor of Hollywood. The runway aboard Open Arms in 2019 was just the start of a new, almost entirely Italian, course for the American sex symbol. And precisely because of his commitment as a human rights activist, Richard Gere was an exclusive guest of Fabio Fazio during the next episode of Che tempo che fa, the journalist’s Sunday night program on Rai3.
The interview focused primarily on Richard Gere’s philanthropic endeavors, with a particular focus on the war in Ukraine. “I think we all have a gut reaction. We all have a similar reaction when we see this To suffer “For all the children and innocents affected by war, this will be a suffering that will be reversed in the future,” said actor Fabio Fazio.
Unlike many of his colleagues, who profess pacifism at all costs, the actor emphasized the two faces of those who say no to war: “I think there are two parts of our environment that have different points of view. violence, but they are not Jesus Christ or the Buddha, but few can define themselves as such. We must do everything we can to prevent attacks and abuses and to provide humanitarian aid. I see it as an opportunity to reflect on what we’re doing.” The actor also commented on the energy crisis: “Because of fossil fuels, given what happened with Putin, the time has come to say enough. we have to see each other as brothers and sisters, it works on all levels”.
Referring to his Fazio commitment to migrants in the Mediterranean, Richard Gere returned to his Open Arms catwalk in 2019: “The only real sin is believing in yourself as separate from other beings. When we share this hallucination of a series of evil being unleashed. As soon as I boarded that ship I saw them as human beings and at that moment they were suffering extreme physical suffering and I was able to understand that tragedy people who experienced them.”
As the founder, the actor was mostly a guest at Fabio Fazio Gere Foundationwhich celebrated its 30th anniversary last year, and as chairman of the board of the non-profit International Campaign for Tibet, which has been supporting a fundraiser for the crisis in Ukraine since last April.