I actually would have liked to hear more about the background of some movies and TV shows that didn't get much mention here, and less about her romantic relationships, but that's me. For years, Davis fondly thought her mother didn’t know the correct way of spelling “Gina”; she was well into her 20s before her mother explained: “I didn’t want anyone to think it was pronounced ‘gina’. Romances and relationships (and we know she had some high-profile ones) are glossed over, and that's fine. I also didn’t know that Davis speaks Swedish, which she learned when dropped into a Swedish town for a high school exchange student year.

It’s not overly thought provoking, or ground breaking, but I quite enjoyed listening to Geena Davis tell her story. raging at me in full clown getup: the makeup, the shoes, the whole nine yards” [by the way: fcking L O L ! I was in the makeup trailer parked on a street in Manhattan on the morning of the first day of shooting when the second assistant director came into the trailer to let me know they were ready for me on set. Davis' exploitative, PR-bait regarding her time with Murray, making his Quick Change (1990) is petty and self-serving for the sake of pandering to a particular demographic.

I had no idea she once dated Christopher McDonald, so that makes Thelma and Louis even more interesting. One of the reasons I love reading memoirs is because I'm fascinated by people who are completely different from me and in the last 3 or so years I've really become interested the memoirs of actresses.

One detail that was interesting to hear about was that you never let your parents know that you didn’t graduate college. By now we were getting close to where everything was set up: It was a big outdoor scene at an intersection, and between the cast, crew, extras, and spectators, there were easily more than three hundred people there—and Murray was still screaming at me, for all to see and hear. They might be surprised to hear [the stories about Bill Murray] if they haven’t heard stories about him previously, because he comes off as an affable, fun-loving guy, and many times he was or could be.I told him that the wardrobe department had just asked me to wait for a second while they got a belt, and he said, “ Okay, then, just come after they bring it. In this simultaneously hilarious and candid memoir, Davis regales us with tales of a career playing everything from an amnesiac assassin to the parent of a rodent, her eccentric childhood, her relationships, and helping lead the way to gender parity in Hollywood—all while learning to be a little more badass, one role at a time. Like so many women in a situation like that, I didn’t know how to avoid being treated that way; I shut up and played along. To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose.

As she finds her voice and herself, she becomes a champion at archery and goes on to found an organization that monitors gender roles in media. Which isn't her fault -- and doesn't mean she should have to eat shit bc of initial successes elsewhere, imo! There’s the director who asked her to audition by sitting on his lap while he rubbed his face in her breasts (she complied) or the time Bill Murray, during a meeting, insisted on trying out a massage machine on her, despite her repeated refusals. She's not only an actress, she's an archer( like Katniss Everdeen) and she runs an advocacy group that is dedicated to ensuring that television and movies have more positive images of girls and women.It took place in a hotel suite (which wouldn’t be allowed today, not after Me Too), and as soon as I walked in the door—before I could even meet the other people in the room—Bill Murray came up to me excitedly and said, “ Have you ever tried the Thumper?

I'm glad to say that not only did it not disappoint, I laughed out loud several times and walked away with an even greater appreciation of her movies. I had no idea that she grew up at the Cape, being from MA this was great to read and picture her in so many places I am familiar with. most notably, stars as lead thelma, in thelma and louise—partly thanks to her, we have that beautiful scene of brad pitt shirtless (one of his first acting roles, if not his first).You battled a handful of phobias in your childhood that caused you distress—everything from an irrational fear of dying from touching a poinsettia to being convinced you had breast cancer at 12. Any director of worth (à la Christopher Nolan, notorious for starting each shooting day at 7:30am), much less familiar, knows just how critical that first shot can be for the rest of your shooting schedule. It’s 30 years since A League of Their Own was released, and it was so juicy to hear some behind-the-scenes details about the movie. I often tell the story of how I took my nine-year-old sister to The Accidental Tourist instead of the agreed on Land Before Time and how I wonder of that altered our relationship negatively - I mean, was that too much William Hurt for a young child?