Geena Davis & Jack Handey

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

For over a decade, actress Geena Davis has been spearheading an institute that gathers the numbers on gender balance on-screen. On this week's episode, she shares her fascinating take on what they do with all their findings plus, some heartwarming stories about how her work has shaped the way her children think about TV and film. Then, writer and humorist, Jack Handey of SNL's "Deep Thoughts with Jack Handey" offers an explanation as to why the voice of Deep Thoughts might be a psychopath, but definitely not insane. And finally, for this week's outshot: Jesse thinks about the lasting amusement found in a 20-year old website. Welcome. To Bullseye. Welcome to Bullseye. Anything is possible at Bullseye. Welcome to you, who are at Bullseye. Welcome!

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:11.6	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:13.3	My guest, Gina Davis, knew she wanted to be an actor pretty much her whole life.
0:17.3	When she plucked up the courage to tell her parents her plan, they were surprisingly
0:21.2	cool with it.
0:22.2	When I said I want a major in acting at BU, they were like, okay, as if I'd said something
0:27.7	you could get a job and you know, and then when I eventually did get a job, my first
0:34.2	job was in Tutsi.
0:35.8	It was my first audition even.
0:38.2	I remember I came home to visit my mom in the neighbor, my best friend's mother.
0:43.7	We're talking, she was like, I can't believe it.
0:46.3	Nobody can believe this is crazy.
0:48.3	My mom said, what, she studied acting in college.
0:55.6	I guess that's how it works.
0:57.6	Bullseye.
1:06.0	Coming up, I'll talk to Gina Davis.
1:08.0	The Gina Davis Institute on Gender in Media looks at how to combat stereotypes and achieve
1:13.7	gender balance in movies and TV.
1:16.6	That's something Gina's been working toward for 14 years now.
1:20.2	The campaign even includes movie nights at home.
1:22.8	There have been times when I start to lean over, my daughter's now 14 when I lean over
1:27.5	to say something and she says, I know, I noticed not enough girls.
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