Richard Gere. Photo Credit: REX FEATURES 
Hollywood superstar Richard Gere attended a screening of his new film detailing life as a homeless man on the streets of New York at a soup kitchen in Rome affiliated with the Sant’Egidio community.
Around 100 homeless people attended the screening at the soup kitchen, during which the actor told them it was “overwhelming to see all these beautiful faces of brothers and sisters”.
During the production of Time Out of Mind, Gere spent hours disguised as a homeless man, and the film captures the actual reactions of passers-by to someone living on the streets.
The actor said he “could feel in a very visceral way what it is like to be untethered, not connected to reality any more, not connected to society anymore, not connected to friends anymore, being invisible on the streets”.
