Yes, Richard Gere Just Flipped Off Savannah Guthrie on 'Today'

"My hand did that, I have no control!"

Richard Gere has charmed audiences time and time again with his swoon-worthy and endearing portrayals in films like Pretty Women and Runaway Bride. While the romcom royalty has become a beloved household name over the past few decades, he made a serious (but hilarious) family television no-no earlier today. In a shocking but silly moment, Gere majorly broke morning show protocol while sitting down with Savannah Guthrie on Today.

Guthrie was in for quite an eventful interview, as he started their chat by giving her the middle finger.

"You just did an obscene gesture on this family morning show!" Guthrie said, covering Gere's hand with a stack of papers. "I'm bleeping you!"

She added, "You know, Cher was on here doing an F-bomb yesterday so I don't know what's happening," referring to the "Believe" singer casually dropping the curse word while sitting down with Hoda Kotb.

The actor didn't mean any harm by the gesture, he was referencing a scene in his new Paramount+ thriller series The Agency. The NBC program showed a clip from the TV show and cut it off right before Gere's character Bosko flips off Jeffrey Wright's character Henry.

"You didn't show but that's what I did in the piece. That's what the clip was," Gere explained.

"That's what the clip was but we cut that part out. But then you did it live!" Guthrie responded.

Gere fired back jokingly, "I could see that, but it didn't make any sense without that. My hand did that, I have no control!"

The Agency is a shoot-off of the French show The Bureau. It follows a covert CIA agent in London (Michael Fassbender) who is forced to abandon his undercover life. Gere and his wife, Alejandra Silva, were fans of The Agency, which made the opportunity to join the cast an exciting prospect for the actor.

"It's very well-written...it's terrific," Gere told Guthrie. "I mean, they're all wonderful, and we shot it like a movie. We do it the same way. Movie directors, movie actors, the schedule is like a movie schedule. It feels the same to me."