How to Say What You Want with Geena Davis
Unladylike
Unladylike Media
4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Geena Davis is so outspoken about Hollywood's women problems, she founded a think-tank to bring the research receipts. But speaking up didn't come naturally for the Academy Award winner and feminist pop cultural icon. Live from the Bentonville Film Festival, Geena takes C&C on her journey from almost dying of politeness to finding her voice on the Thelma & Louise set. And how that did—and didn't—"change everything."
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| 0:00.0 | I go to this meeting with my passion and notes and ideas and thoughts about why I absolutely |
| 0:10.7 | have to play Louise in this movie and he's listening and I'm pouring my heart out |
| 0:15.7 | and then he finally says, so in other words you wouldn't play Thelma. |
| 0:20.6 | There was only like a slight pause before I said, you know what's so interesting. |
| 0:28.9 | Hey y'all and welcome to UnLadylike. |
| 0:47.0 | The show that finds out what happens when women break the rules. |
| 0:50.2 | I'm Caroline. |
| 0:51.2 | I'm Kristen and that was Gina Davis. |
| 0:54.2 | I love Gina Davis. |
| 0:56.7 | So she was basically in the 80s and 90s the star in some of my favorite movies, Kristen. |
| 1:02.7 | Like Badass Ketchar Dottie in a League of Their Own. |
| 1:05.6 | She was Barbara, the adorable face-contorting ghost in Beetlejuice and let us not forget |
| 1:14.0 | she was Thelma to Susan Sarandons Louise. |
| 1:17.7 | You rock the store. |
| 1:18.6 | Ah, the goddamn store. |
| 1:21.3 | Well, we did the money. |
| 1:22.7 | Oh, that like I killed anybody for God's sake. |
| 1:25.9 | Thelma. |
| 1:26.9 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:27.9 | The Caroline, what a lot of people probably don't know about Gina Davis is all of the work |
| 1:31.6 | that she has been doing in the past decade plus behind the scenes in Hollywood. |
| 1:37.6 | She had noticed the absence of women and like full female characters in kids programming. |
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