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Davis was working as a model when she was cast by director Sydney Pollack in his film Tootsie (1982) as a soap opera actor, whom she has described as "someone who's going to be in their underwear a lot of time". [5] [12] It was the second most profitable film of 1982, [13] received ten Academy Awards nominations [14] and is considered a classic ...
Davis, who founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media in 2004, noted that most often a younger woman is cast alongside an older — often much more than seven years older — leading man ...
GDI was founded in 2004 by Geena Davis. [5] She founded the Institute to gather data on gender representation in media after noticing an imbalance in the representation of male and female characters in children's television while her daughter was a toddler.
[5] The film underwent more than five months of post-production tinkering, including the removal of numerous scenes and the production number "I Like 'em Big and Stupid" (a different version of the song plays in the club scene; the deleted sequence appears on the DVD extras) and reshoots later commenced (the song "Cause I'm a Blonde" was ...
Three decades after driving off that fateful cliff and into one of cinema's most iconic freeze frames, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon are getting back behind the wheel together. To mark the 30th ...
Meghan Markle, Geena Davis. Getty Images(2) Meghan Markle and Geena Davis are bringing awareness to how mothers are portrayed on television. The Suits alum and mother of two teamed up with the ...
The women leave him stranded in the desert with the wreckage. Thelma and Louise are finally cornered by the authorities only a hundred yards from the edge of the Grand Canyon. Hal arrives on the scene, but the women refuse his last attempt to talk them into surrendering. Rather than be captured, Thelma proposes that they "keep going".
Geena Davis opens up on whether or not she'll appear in the "Beetlejuice" sequel with Michael Keaton and her plans with Susan Sarandon for "Thelma and Louise"