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Article: Explaining the inexplicable; FILM: Richard Gere stars in chilling fact-based psychic drama The Mothman Prophecies.(Arts)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2002
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Byline: ROB DRISCOLL
THE millennium-era craze for supernatural thrillers, in the wake of The Sixth Sense and the The Blair Witch Project, continues unabated with the chilling new fact-based psychic drama The Mothman Prophecies - but for its star Richard Gere, the appeal for making it lay first and foremost with the emotional pull of the script.
"I didn't say, 'I want to make a scary movie', " smiles 52-year-old Gere. "The script came and I could see the possibilities, although it went through a lot of drafts to find the balance between a scary movie and a ...