Julia Roberts Reveals The Unfortunate Fate Of Her ‘Pretty Woman’ Love Interest Played By Richard Gere: “I Think He Passed Away Peacefully In His Sleep, Smiling”

Julia Roberts, an icon of the screen, has played plenty of memorable characters over the decades. The star recently revealed some predictions about how those characters are faring today in a game of “Where Are They Now” on CBS Mornings.

Co-host Gayle King asked Roberts if her Pretty Woman persona (sex worker Vivian Ward) and her love interest, Edward Lewis (played by Richard Gere) would “still be together,” per Entertainment Weekly.

Roberts replied, “I think he passed away peacefully in his sleep from a heart attack, smiling.”

While this may appear an unfortunate fate for Lewis, Roberts assured fans that Vivian “now runs his business.”

Gere and Roberts teamed up again after Pretty Woman for the 1999 rom-com Runaway Bride, and Roberts had a far sunnier prediction for Gere’s Ike Graham. When asked, Roberts said Ike and her Runaway Bride character, Maggie Carpenter, “stay together.”

“He doesn’t die in this one,” she promised.

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She reiterated this sense of hopefulness with respect to her other films, such as Mystic Pizza, where she played Daisy Arujo alongside Adam Storke’s Charles Gordon.

“Let’s hope they’re still together and they have a bunch of cute little kiddos,” she said.

As for My Best Friend’s Wedding — in which Roberts’ Julianne Potter realizes she’s in love with her best friend, Michael O’Neal (Dermot Mulroney), who is about to wed Cameron Diaz‘s Kimberly Wallace — Roberts shared that she thinks Michael is “married and faithful to his wife.”

“And George (Rupert Everett) and Julianne start a do-it-yourself show on HGTV and become wildly famous,” she continued.

The fates continued to appear a little more promising for her Notting Hill character, actress Anna Scott, and her love interest, bookstore owner William Thacker (Hugh Grant).

“She’s retired [from acting], she has six children and has maintained her waist size amazingly,” she quipped. Meanwhile, Grant’s character “runs the bookshop still, and now there’s a little knitting annex to the bookshop that she runs.”

Roberts also addressed her character Darby Shaw’s relationship with Denzel Washington‘s Gray Grantham in The Pelican Brief, admitting that in her eyes, “they’re absolutely together.” Roberts added, “I think he’s in love with her, [and] she’s in love with him.”