Richard Gere Flips the Bird at Savannah Guthrie During Live Interview on Today: "My Hand Did That!"


 **Richard Gere Flips the Bird at Savannah Guthrie During Live Meeting on *Today*: "My Hand Did That!"**


By Dave Quinn


Richard Gere worked up some startling giggling during a live meeting on the *Today* show, flipping Savannah Guthrie the bird on Wednesday, Nov. 20. The second shocked both Guthrie and watchers.


"You just did a profane motion on this family morning show!" Guthrie shouted, utilizing a heap of papers to cover Gere's hand. "I'm bleeping you!"


Gere, apparently entertained, immediately made sense of, "That's what my hand did, I have no control!"


### A Scene Denounced any and all authority


The entertaining setback happened as *Today* circulated a clasp from Gere's new reconnaissance spine chiller, *The Agency*. In the clasp, Gere's personality makes a similar motion, however the show had cut the scene before it worked out.


"You didn't show it, however that is the very thing I did in the piece!" Gere said, snickering. Guthrie brought up, "We cut that part out, however at that point you did it live!"


The entertainer shielded his unconstrained move, it wasn't deliberate to demand it. "It didn't seem OK without the specific circumstance!" he kidded.


### *The Agency*: Gere's Little Screen Presentation


Gere stars close by Michael Fassbender, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Jeffrey Wright in *The Agency*, an American variation of the French series *The Bureau*. The show is set in the London office of the CIA and follows Fassbender's personality, a secret employable wrestling with the aftermath of his covert life.



The 10-episode series denotes Gere's very first television job, a choice he tracked down engaging subsequent to watching the first French series with his significant other, Alejandra Silva.


"It's very elegantly composed and feels very much like shooting a film," Gere shared. "We had film chiefs, film entertainers, and a timetable to coordinate. It's fantastic."


### A Paramount Week on *Today*


The episode adds to a vivacious week for the *Today* show, following Cher's incidental F-bomb during her meeting with Hoda Kotb simply the other day. Guthrie couldn't resist the opportunity to draw an obvious conclusion, joking, "Cher drops a F-bomb, then this happens? What's going on?"


*The Agency* debuts Nov. 29 on Paramount+ and Kickoff. Get *Today* non-weekend days on NBC at 7 a.m. ET.

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