'Pretty Woman' was supposed to be about drugs

Can you believe it's been 25 years since Pretty Woman hit theaters? And for the first time since then, the cast had a little reunion.

Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Hector Elizondo and Laura San Giacomo, along with director Garry Marshall, got together to reminisce about the tale of a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a hooker.

"If I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time," joked Matt Lauer at the start of theToday show chat, referencing, of course, one of Roberts' classic lines from the movie.

And what we learned might blow your mind.

DOES THE MOVIE SEEM LIKE A LONG TIME AGO?

"It doesn't, to me," says Roberts.

"It seems like 45 years… Honesty, it feels like a long time ago we did that," says Gere.

THE ORIGINAL MOVIE WASN'T THE CINDERELLA STORY WE'VE ALL COME TO LOVE.

It was about DRUGS, people. And Vivian was a DRUG ADDICT!

And it was called 3,000, in reference to how much money Gere's character, Edward, paid Julia's character, Vivian.

"At the end of the original script, Richard's character threw my character out of the car, threw the money on top of her and drove away and the credits rolled," explains Roberts.

WHAT?!?!?!?!

THANK GOODNESS FOR DISNEY AND MARSHALL, WHO SWOOPED IN TO SAVE IT!

(BECAUSE CLEARLY SHE WAS JUST FLOSSING HER TEETH FROM ALL THOSE STRAWBERRY SEEDS!)

But even after the script changed to what we now know and love, Gere wasn't sold when they approached him about the part. "I didn't get it," he said.

Luckily, he did get Roberts, and their chemistry was undeniable.

"We're getting to know each other," he explained. "We're flirty-flirty, nice-nice. … And (Marshall) calls up and is kind of like, 'How's it going?'"

Gere wasn't sure. Then Roberts passed him a Post-it note.

"She turns it around and she pushes it to me, and it said, 'Please say yes!'" he recalled. "It was so sweet, and I said (to Marshall), 'I just said yes.'"

THEIR FAVORITE SCENES

ROBERTS: "Driving around in the car in Hollywood was pretty hilarious," says Roberts of when she first meets Richard, who is struggling to drive his lawyer's Lotus.

GERE: "Basically any scene where Julia was walking," says Gere, "was fun for all of us. In that outfit. It was all about legs."