"People ask me about that movie but I've forgotten it. That was a silly romantic comedy," Gere reportedly told the mag while promoting his new financial thriller, Arbitrage.
"Grumpy" Gere also reportedly claimed that his character in the movie "helped contribute to the global financial crisis, as he glorified greedy and selfish Wall Street types," according to the mag.
"It made those guys seem dashing, which was so wrong. Thankfully, today, we are all more skeptical of those guys," Gere said.
"In the 1980s, relationships were all about status," Gere continued.
"I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff. I know now that I would rather have something that is true, something that is based on real love."
Speaking about his new movie, in which he plays a troubled hedge fund magnate, the 62-year-old actor said: "This is a much more serious movie that has some real cause and effect."
But hold fire before you pin your photo of Gere to a dartboard, ladies and gents.
"He did not give an interview to this publication," the actor's rep tells E! Online.
Echoed the rep to Access Hollywood: "All a bunch of BS. He didn't do an interview with that Australian publication."
And this from Gossip Cop: "We have no record of such an exclusive nor any interview for that matter with Gere and this publication."
But the mag is standing by its story.
"Woman's Day stands by our story and our journalist Henry Meller," a rep for Woman's Day told Access.
"He spoke to Mr Gere at the Sundance Film Festival ahead of and immediately after the premiere of Arbitrage.'"
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