Richard Gere Flips Savannah Guthrie the Bird During Live Interview onTodayas She Tells Him, 'I'm Bleeping You!'

Mar. 15, 2025

FirstCher, nowRichard Gere!

“You just did an obscene gesture on this family morning show!” a shocked Guthrie said to Gere, holding a stack of papers up to hide his hand. “I’m bleeping you!”

“You know, Cher was on here doing an F-bomb yesterday so I don’t know what’s happening!” she joked.

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So what prompted Gere to raise his middle finger? Turns out, he was just finishing a scene from his new espionage thriller,The Agency. Todayhad shown a clip from the Paramount+/Showtime 10-episode series to set up the Gere segment but had cut the scene off right before Gere’s character made the gesture.

“You didn’t show but that’s what I did in the piece!” Gere explained. “That’s what the clip was!”

Richard Gere Flips Savannah Guthrie the Bird During Live Interview on Today.NBC

“That’s what the clip was but we cut that part out. But then you did it live!” Guthrie said.

“I could see that but it didn’t make any sense without that!” he noted, later insisting the move wasn’t intention. “My hand did that, I have no control!”

Jeffrey Wright and Richard Gere in ‘The Agency’.Kander/Paramount

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“It’s very well-written… it’s terrific,” Gere said onToday. “I mean, they’re all wonderful. and we shot it like a movie. We do it the same way. Movie directors, movie actors, the schedule is like a movie schedule. It feels the same to me.”

The Agencystreams Nov. 29 on Paramount+/Showtime.Todayairs weekdays on NBC (beginning at 7 a.m. ET).

source: people.com