Richard Gere on avoiding conscription, activism and why ‘Oh Canada’ was not shot in Canada

Open this photo in gallery: Gere, seen alongside Uma Thurman in an undated still image handout from the Paul Schrader film "Oh Canada," plays a draft dodger. The actor explained to a group of journalists in Cannes the day after the film's premiere that he was a conscientious objector.HO/The Canadian Press Richard Gere says he contemplated coming to Canada to avoid being sent to the Vietnam War. The actor plays a draft dodger in Paul Schrader’s film “Oh Canada,” and like his character, was a conscientious objector as a young man, he tells a group of journalists at the Cannes...