“I flew from New York to Barcelona. And when I was awarded, they warned that there how to break with the continuity of our selfishness for a day to be better. ” In Spain if it were not because who says it is Richard Gere, an American actor, a genius that practices meditation since the age of 22 and has the best hair in world cinema.
Gere walked this Thursday afternoon through the red carpet of Verdi Street, in the Gràcia neighborhood of Barcelona, to present at the BCN Film Fest, a documentary in which the Nobel Peace Prize, reflects on how you can be happy in such a complex world.
The actor is the executive producer of, in many other messages, the importance of meditation to develop the compassion and the key role of women. The Dalái Lama (Tenzin Gyatso) explains it like this: “If there were more leaders, the world would be more peaceful.” After the projection, and during the colloquium, Gere was asked about that phrase. And he responded with a smile: “Women in command, a better world: it is something that is said quite often and I believe that women have more affinity with compassion and empathy, and are highly resolutive. While men in today’s world can be more unstable and even ridiculous. I would not doubt a second in replacing Trump with any of the women who are in this room.” Being asking if it uses Buddhism to support the Hollywood industry, he said: “Hollywood is nothing, the world is hard, being married is hard, politics, family. Buddhism allows you to keep you connected. The world does not change by praying but acting.”
Gere got into the public in his pocket from the first minute. It was not difficult. They were all very delivered. “The world needs the knowledge of Dalái Lama,” said Barbara Miller, co -director of the film along with Philip Delaquis. The documentary reviews with archiving images of his life, his childhood, his relationship with his father and, above all, with his mother, an illiterate peasant from which he tells that he learned everything he knows about love and compassion. “We discovered that Dalái Lama had an immense file, it was a lot of material. They let us use and digitize it, it is a huge cultural heritage,” Miller said. “His holiness does not like to see himself on the screen, but he saw pieces and enjoyed and what made him smile was to see himself playing with his friends in the snow,” explained the protagonist of Officer and Knight and Pretty Women.
the one that presented the actor with all the honors of a star. “We are going to endure our breathing a bit,” he said. “The years go by, not for him,” he joked. And he finished: “It is a star of those who make your hands sweat. With you Richard Gere.”
