Geena Davis

Happy Sad Confused

Josh Horowitz

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Virtually from the moment Geena Davis landed on the big screen in "Tootsie", her run was unstoppable -- "Beetlejuice", "The Fly", "Thelma & Louise", "A League of their Own", an Oscar win for "The Accidental Tourist". And then as if out of a bad Hollywood script the roles dried up as soon as she turned 40. On this visit to "Happy Sad Confused", Geena Davis talks about that amazing run as well as her inspiring work in recent years, launching her own institute studying gender inequality in media, acting in new projects like GLOW, and receiving an honorary Oscar very soon. Her new film, "This Changes Everything" is in theaters and on VOD on August 9th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Prepare your ears humans.
0:02.0	Happy, sad, confused begins now.
0:05.0	Today on Happy Second Fused Academy Award winner Gina Davis on Thelma Louise The Fly and her work on gender equality.
0:24.6	Hey guys, I'm Josh Harrow.
0:25.7	Welcome to another edition of Happy Sad Confused.
0:28.4	Very excited to say, yes, Gina Davis,
0:31.1	Oscar winner, True Film Icon.
0:35.1	She's been in so many of my favorite films,
0:38.2	first-time guest on Happy Se, Confused Today.
0:40.6	And as I said to her, I could have three different conversations with her.
0:44.2	I could have a conversation about, you know, certain specific films, the macro career,
0:50.1	like she's really has been in a half dozen stone cold classics and then there's this
0:55.8	other side of her especially in the last 15 years and she started the Gina Davis
1:00.4	Institute on Gender in Media which is this wonderful organization that is really studying, you know, what we all
1:09.5	know to be true, which is that there's this massive inequality in front of and behind the camera when it comes
1:15.8	to film and TV.
1:17.4	And she's done such remarkable work there.
1:20.6	She started her own film festival, the Bentonville Film Festival. She's
1:25.0	the new film festival, the Bentonville Film Festival. She has this new documentaries that she's the executive producer of called This Changes Everything.
1:30.0	She's really helping make strides in an industry that needs somebody to fight the good fight.
1:38.0	And that's certainly what she's been doing for a long while now.
1:41.0	So just on that aspect of her career, it was a thrill to have her here.
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