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Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

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Smith, Stacy L.; Choueiti, Marc; Pieper, Katherine; Gillig, Traci; Lee, Carmen; DeLuca, Dylan. "Inequality in 700 Popular Films: Examining Portrayals of Gender, Race, & LGBT Status from 2007 to 2014". Being diagnosed in her 40s with ADD, she says, was “very impactful”. “I thought there was something terribly wrong with me that I should be embarrassed about,” she says of her short attention span. And I didn’t want anybody to know, you know, that I had a character flaw... so it was a huge relief to find out that it was something that didn’t have to do with me being a failure, you know?” She talks about the “superpower” aspects of her condition. “It can be hard to focus but when you do focus, it’s like, the gears mesh, and you really can hyper focus and do it all day and all night. If I start doing something that I really am engaged in, I don’t know when to stop, I don’t know when to go to bed.”

In 1995, you had been in “Cutthroat Island,” directed by your husband at the time, Renny Harlin, where you played a pirate. This movie was in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest box-office bomb of all time, and it essentially shut down the studio that made “Rambo” and “Basic Instinct,” Carolco Pictures. What went wrong? So lots to talk about then, not least her impressive film career. In the 1980s and 1990s, now 64-year-old Davis starred in a string of commercially successful movies, her first role was alongside Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, she won a best supporting actress Oscar for playing Muriel Pritchett in Accidental Tourist and performed crowd-pleasing turns in movies such as The Fly, Beetlejuice and A League of Her Own. As a woman of a certain age, I confess to being a little awed by the fact that I am talking to the woman who played Thelma in Thelma & Louise. 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.It didn’t really have a big impact on me because I was getting work. The parts where people thought that I wasn’t pretty enough were the kinds of roles that I wouldn’t have wanted to play in hindsight because they were the girlfriend of the person who’s doing all the fun stuff, and your job was to be really pretty. So I managed to avoid those parts almost exclusively. Before this happened, you worked at Ann Taylor on Fifth Avenue and—this is not something that a self-effacing person would do, necessarily—put on your own version of street theatre. Geena Davis attends the Thelma & Louise 30th anniversary screening. Photograph: Amy Sussman/Getty Images Film in 1992 | BAFTA Awards". British Academy of Film and Television Arts . Retrieved October 25, 2021.

An animatronic. I could hear everything they said, and I heard one of them say, “It’s not a mannequin. It has hair on its arms.” So that was the last time I had hair on my arms. And then I tied little strings around my wrist to make it look like my hands were attached. But then I heard somebody say, “It’s not real. It would have to be plugged in if it was real.” So I got a very small, discreet cord and trailed it down and away from the window. They’d be watching, and somebody would say, “It’s plugged in! It is a mannequin!” Davis was born on January 21, 1956, in Wareham, Massachusetts. [2] Her mother, Lucille ( néeCook), was a teacher's assistant, and her father, William F. Davis, was a civil engineer and church deacon. Both were from small towns in Vermont. [3] Davis has an older brother, Danforth ("Dan"). [4] Entertaining… After decades of silently seething, Thelma & Louise star Geena Davis lifts the lid on Hollywood sexism” - Daily Express I think about that, too. It really is mostly women. Like Anjelica Huston I think of sometimes. She’s a genius. Where is she in movies? Michelle Pfeiffer, too. She’s been in some good things [recently], but it’s always seemed just tragic to me. I have a theory about why it happens. I think many male screenwriters put a female character in if they need to—a girlfriend or a daughter or whatever—and then, when they’re casting all the other roles in their minds, the go-to is always male. And so the really cool parts for people in their forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, whatever, always go to men. It’s not fair, because they get to soldier on and have ever-younger co-stars. I always say, “Go through and figure out who could be female, or who could be a person of color, and change the first name.” I said at one point to my agent, “Can we find out what Liam Neeson is turning down and go for those parts?” I know you didn’t start the institute to give yourself opportunities, but I’d like to think that, since you’ve been in the public eye more lately, winning the honorary Emmy Award and having this book come out, you are going to be more present in our lives. Is there a really juicy role that’s come your way, or something you’re looking for?

I started mentioning it whenever I had a meeting in Hollywood: “Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in movies made for kids?” I asked dozens of people, and every single one said, “That’s not true anymore. That’s been fixed.” So then I thought, This is completely unconscious. They do not know they’re doing it. Maybe data will convince them. So that’s when I sponsored a massive study on gender depictions in children’s entertainment, and the results were what I had observed. I started having meetings with different studios and networks and guilds and production companies, and when they heard the data they were horrified. They were stunned that they were leaving out that many female characters. People create children’s content because they care about kids. Ergo, they will want to change. And that’s exactly what happened. she has this air around her that is not aggressive, but assertive. (i guess this is where her politeness lies.) she gets the job done! Davis began dating restaurateur Richard Emmolo in December 1977 and moved in with him a month later. [55] The two married on March 25, 1981, but separated in February 1983 and divorced on June 27, 1984. [56] She then dated future Thelma & Louise co-star Christopher McDonald, to whom she was briefly engaged. [57] Another special skill for your résumé. So much of the arc of the book is about how you learned boldness and bravery from your characters before feeling like they were qualities you possessed in life. What was an early example of that?

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