Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

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The 1991 movie she co-starred in with Susan Sarandon was truly groundbreaking and the response from women who saw it – I went to see it three times – was intense. And she has long advocated for inclusion and equal representation of women in the entertainment industry — including by founding the nonprofit Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which won the prestigious Governors Award at last month's Emmys. He’s a very wealthy, successful, famous guy and has a retreat where he can go and bring his buddies and chicks. Before I even would have thought of slouching my shoulders, she was, like, “You have to stand up straight. The first movies I picked were unusual and offbeat, because I’d read the script and say, “Oh, I want to do that!

She went to Boston University to study drama, later becoming a model in New York and winning the role in Tootsie after her first audition. In 2015, Davis launched an annual film festival to be held in Bentonville, Arkansas, to highlight diversity in film, accepting films that prominently feature minorities and women in the cast and crew. When Davis passed the director’s suggestion on to Sarandon, she went straight up to Scott and told him it wasn’t happening. In an excerpt from his new book, Hitchcock’s Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director’s Dark Obsession, Laurence Leamer digs deep into the turbulent marriage between the Psycho star and Some Like It Hot actor.Nicole Herman in the show's 14th season, [46] and executive produced the documentary This Changes Everything, in which she was also interviewed about her experiences in the industry.

Variety found it to be "led by a valiant Geena Davis", despite a "script that mistakes abuse for wit". She next won the regular part of Wendy Killian in the television series Buffalo Bill, [15] which aired from June 1983 to March 1984; and had a writing credit in one episode.

In your later life, you’ve become a significant critic of gender representation in media, which we’ll get to later. Recently, Davis, sixty-six, spoke to me from her home in Los Angeles about her “journey to badassery,” her iconic roles of the eighties and nineties, and the Hollywood double standard that she is battling with numbers. Geena Davis is an American actor, advocate for gender equality, executive producer, and former model.