<p class="title">Actor Julia Roberts has recalled that the original ending of her 1990 romantic hit "Pretty Woman" was quite dark and hard hitting.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The film is considered a classic and one of the most memorable projects of Roberts who portrayed prostitute Vivian Ward opposite Richard Gere's Edward Lewis, a rich corporate raider and playboy from New York.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Roberts, 51, recently appeared on Variety's Actor on Actor series alongside Patricia Arquette, who revealed that she had originally auditioned for the film that was earlier titled "3,000".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"So many, many, many years ago, one of my early auditions was for a movie called '3,000'. Most people don't know that '3,000' was the original 'Pretty Woman' script. And the ending was really heavy," Arquette said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">To this, Roberts revealed the original ending in which her character, Vivian Ward, is shoved out of a car and someone "threw the money on top of her, as memory serves, and just drove away, leaving her in some dirty alley."</p>.<p class="bodytext">The actor further said the project never saw the light of the day as a "small movie company" that owned the movie rights "folded over the weekend".</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, Disney soon picked up the script and the producer.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I thought, 'Went to Disney? Are they going to animate it?' (Director) Garry Marshall came on, and because he's a great human being, he felt it would only be fair to meet me since I had this job for three days and lost it.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And they changed the whole thing. And it became more something that is in my wheelhouse," Roberts said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">About "3,000", the actor said, "I couldn't do it then. I couldn't do it now. Thank God it fell apart." </p>
<p class="title">Actor Julia Roberts has recalled that the original ending of her 1990 romantic hit "Pretty Woman" was quite dark and hard hitting.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The film is considered a classic and one of the most memorable projects of Roberts who portrayed prostitute Vivian Ward opposite Richard Gere's Edward Lewis, a rich corporate raider and playboy from New York.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Roberts, 51, recently appeared on Variety's Actor on Actor series alongside Patricia Arquette, who revealed that she had originally auditioned for the film that was earlier titled "3,000".</p>.<p class="bodytext">"So many, many, many years ago, one of my early auditions was for a movie called '3,000'. Most people don't know that '3,000' was the original 'Pretty Woman' script. And the ending was really heavy," Arquette said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">To this, Roberts revealed the original ending in which her character, Vivian Ward, is shoved out of a car and someone "threw the money on top of her, as memory serves, and just drove away, leaving her in some dirty alley."</p>.<p class="bodytext">The actor further said the project never saw the light of the day as a "small movie company" that owned the movie rights "folded over the weekend".</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, Disney soon picked up the script and the producer.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I thought, 'Went to Disney? Are they going to animate it?' (Director) Garry Marshall came on, and because he's a great human being, he felt it would only be fair to meet me since I had this job for three days and lost it.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"And they changed the whole thing. And it became more something that is in my wheelhouse," Roberts said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">About "3,000", the actor said, "I couldn't do it then. I couldn't do it now. Thank God it fell apart." </p>