Richard Gere Took Tap Lessons
Richard Gere is the sort of actor who isn’t afraid of a challenge. When preparing for his role in An Officer and a Gentleman, he learned karate, and for Chicago, he had to learn another new skill: tap dance. He was already an accomplished dancer, but this was something new!
Richard Gere dancing in ‘Chicago’ 2002. Photo by Moviestore Collection / Shutterstock
There was only one scene in the movie actually involving tap dance for Gere’s character of Billy Flynn, but he had to spend three whole months training up for it! It only took half a day to shoot in the end as he’d gotten so good by that point, but he admitted in interviews that it was one of the hardest things he’d ever had to do.