Everything, Gretchen Mol says, is a transaction, including love and sex.
That’s never more true than in “American Gigolo,” a reimagining of the 1980 neo-noir crime drama starring Richard Gere as Julian Kaye, a high-priced Los Angeles escort who winds up framed for murder. In the Showtime series, premiering Friday, Kaye, now played by Jon Bernthal, is released from prison after 15 years after another inmate confesses to the murder on his death bed.
Sent back into the sun, Kaye falls back into his old life, not just the sex work but the relationships, including former love Michelle (Mol), best friend Lorenzo (Wayne Brady) and Isabelle (Lizzie Brocheré), the heiress to the prostitution ring that Julian was thrust into as a teenager.
