Geena Davis on childhood traumas, a life-changing friendship, and the anxiety of revealing it all

Next Question with Katie Couric

Katie Couric Media

Documentary,, Society & Culture, News, Commentary, Health, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Geena Davis has been a face we have come to know on screen for 40 years. And despite being in the public eye for so long, Geena is one of those actors who has cleverly obscured herself and her personal life behind the scenes. But now, she’s putting her whole self out there with a memoir called Dying of Politeness. On this episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie and Geena talk about her “throwback” childhood, girlhood trauma, and some of her most iconic roles. They talk about the feminist thread that has shaped Geena’s career, the inescapable misogyny of Hollywood, and how she carved her own professional path in the second phase of life.

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