Is anyone else watching The Agency on Showtime/Paramount+? If so, can you please tell me what’s happening?! I get the big picture: CIA London office, Michael Fassbender is still in love with Jodie Turner-Smith from his undercover work, and Martian is trying to track down Coyote (though sadly those last two are not of the fun Looney Tunes variety). But I feel like a lot of the story goes over my head and there’s at least one too many subplots. Still, it’s nice to see Fassy acting again, and the rest of the cast is stacked. That includes Richard Gere, who plays Bosko, the head of the London office. Gere has a new interview in Elle España — he and his wife Alejandra Silva relocated to her home country Spain last fall; it was in the works before the election, yet that makes me no less jealous — and both Gere and Silva talked to the magazine about what makes them work as a couple:
Richard Gere is getting candid about his life in Spain with wife Alejandra Silva.
The Pretty Woman star, 75, shared in an interview with Elle España that he has found new fulfillment since moving to the country with his wife, 41, and their children, which includes their sons Alexander, 5, and James, 4, and Silva’s son Albert, 11.
“The truth is that you are seeing us in our momentum. We are happier than ever,” Gere told the outlet. “[Alejandra], because she is at home and I because, if she is happy, I am happy.”
The Agency actor — who met Silva in Italy in 2014 after his divorce from ex-wife Carey Lowell, whom he shares son Homer James, 24 — also shared that what keeps him and his wife united is their common interest in environmental work. The couple have collaborated together on the Sierra a Mar project in Mexico and other projects, which have earned them recognition.
“We can all minimize this sense of ego, of the self. And that’s when true change occurs,” he explained of the work.
“My wife shines for her open-mindedness and her genuine sense of gratitude,” he added. “So connecting with that, however you do it, whether you consider it spirit or religion, love or compassion … it’s infinite.”
Silva told Elle España that she and her husband have been in step with each other ever since they first met in Positano on the Amalfi Coast, and that they have further aligned their dreams and goals since marrying in 2018.
“We are like soul mates,” Silva said. “We have the same values, we see the world in the same way and from the first moment we felt like we have known each other for a long time. And this only happens once, if it happens at all … We were united by the karma of our past lives.”
“We were united by the karma of our past lives,” is quite the lofty statement. There was a time in my life when I would have been all in on that sentiment, but I guess 10+ years of living in New York has ground me down to a cynical, sarcastic non-believer! Is Silva suggesting that they were each so cosmically good in their past lives, that they were rewarded in this life by meeting each other? (Which, if so, seems like the kind of thing you let someone else say about you, but seems rather presumptuous to declare about yourself, no?) Or does she just mean that they fit together based on the particular experiences in their past lives? And of course the larger question is: how does she know this? How does one become certain about the karmic value of their past lives? Because I’d really love to know what I’ve been up to throughout the ages that has earned me this sassy, salty, disunited-from-any-soulmate incarnation I’m living through now. And I say that with pride!
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They both sound pretty vapid.
I just can’t help judging him for having young children at his age. It doesn’t seem fair to the children, even if he lives long enough to see them to adulthood how is he going to parent them in any meaningful sense? He’s old enough to be their great grandfather!
I hope to see less of that in the coming years now that we know the age of the father is a significant risk factor for some serious medical conditions. Yes, men make semen their whole lives blah blah blah, but old man semen gives the poor children such difficult lives. It’s terrible for the elderly men & the younger women they procreate with to knowingly do such a thing.
Nobody is guaranteed that their parents will be around. The benefit of older parents is that they aren’t working so they can spend time with their kids— in Gere ´s case, Time & money. Lucky kids.
Reading the first paragraph in the excerpt I thought ‘Elle España’ was her name.
Elle Espana is the name of Alec and Hilaria Baldwin’s seventh child. I kid (sorta).
It does sound pretentious, yes. But that’s how Karma works, right? We reap in this life what we sowed in the previous one. I have heard this said many times, but like: “wow, I must have done something well in my past life to deserve this”.
Still, better than the erroneous “karma’s going to get you”, “karma’s a bitch” that you hear a lot. That’s not how karma works, the baddies won’t get punished next month or next year.
I think it’s more like they were united by the karma of his past wives. 😂
I think she means they have spent many lifetimes with each other. Source: My parents believe that they are karmically linked by many previous lifetimes as partners. (I believe my parents are co-dependent as hell, but their version sounds much prettier!)
I didn’t even realize he and Carey weren’t together until the previous column about his move to Spain. It sounds like this lady is feeding his ego the right recipe.
Richard Gere living the life Alec Baldwin thought he was getting… before he realized Hilaria from Spain was “loco” Hilary from Boston.
🤣🤣I wonder if Alec knows this? He’s just blissfully ignorant. When those kids all realize they’re not Spanish but have Spanish names, oh boy.
I put her statement in the same category as Megan’s “twin flame” claim about her boyfriend.