Ruislip & Eastcote & Northwood Gazette
GRIT AND GLAMOUR
AMERICAN GIGOLO Paramount+, from Saturday, September 10
■ IN 1980, Richard Gere set pulses racing as a high-end male escort in writer-director Paul Schrader’s gritty thriller American Gigolo. Now a TV series, developed by David Hollander, centres on the same central character, sex worker Julian Kaye (Jon Bernthal), after he has served 15 years in prison for a wrongful murder conviction.
RELEASED into a modern-day Los Angeles he barely recognises, Julian rebuilds bridges with former lover Michelle (Gretchen Mol) and his mother, aided by best friend and mentor Lorenzo (Wayne Brady). Detective Sunday (Rosie O’Donnell) is determined to uncover the truth about the murder that sent Julian to prison and her wide-ranging investigation unearths a larger conspiracy.