'Pretty Woman' originally had dark ending, reveals Julia Roberts

Actor Julia Roberts has recalled that original ending of her 1990 romantic hit 'Pretty Woman' was quite dark and hard hitting.

film is considered a classic and one of 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.

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Roberts, 51, recently appeared on Variety's Actor on Actor series alongside Patricia Arquette, who revealed that she had originally auditioned for film that was earlier titled '3,000'.

"So many, many, many years ago, one of my early auditions was for a movie called '3,000'. Most people don't kw that '3,000' was original 'Pretty Woman' script. And ending was really heavy," Arquette said.

To this, Roberts revealed original ending in which her character, Vivian Ward, is shoved out of a car and someone "threw money on top of her, as memory serves, and just drove away, leaving her in some dirty alley."

actor furr said project never saw light of day as a "small movie company" that owned movie rights "folded over weekend".

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However, Disney soon picked up script and producer.

"I thought, 'Went to Disney? Are y 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. And y changed whole thing. And it became more something that is in my wheelhouse," Roberts said.

About '3,000', actor said, "I couldn't do it n. I couldn't do it w. Thank God it fell apart."