Geena Davis
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Who is Geena Davis and what early life memories shape her identity?
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dax Shepard. I'm joined by Monica Padman.
Hi.
Hello. Today we have an icon, Gina Davis. She is an Academy Award winning actor. Thelma and Louise, a league of their own. Beetlejuice, Long Kiss Goodnight, The Fly.
Legends. Sometimes we get legends in here. It's pretty cool.
Oh, I loved her. Please enjoy Gina Davis.
He's an armchair expert.
I was looking for the seatbelt.
Oh, you were?
Interesting. You were, because you think this is going to be a wild ride? I've been flying a lot lately.
Okay. That was it? I don't know. It's just muscle memory.
That's really sweet. You really did just go for your seatbelt.
Yeah.
Who knows what's going to happen? How long have you been in Studio City?
Only less than a year. I'm just renting. Just live in the Palisades. Moved before all of that. Unfortunately, that house went. And then I rented a place in Venice for two years. Then I gave up the lease on that because I had to go to... New Mexico. New Mexico. To shoot a series. And then, just as I was going to come back, I thought, oh, it'll be so easy to find. The fires happened right when I was coming back.
And so everyone was renting up everything.
So everything was gone. I ended up in a guest house. in the backyard of some nice Armenian people in Glendale. Wait, hold on. You were in someone's guest house? Guest house.
And were they aware that Gina Davis was their tenant?
Well, it was funny. My assistant booked it in her name. And then I came to meet them and she said, it's actually her. And I said, by the way, maybe don't talk about that. I'm living here. Don't tell the neighbors. Yeah, yeah. Just don't bring it up. And they said, why? What do you mean? They're like, bring what up? Bring what up?
Okay.
Are they new to the country? They had accents. So they might have moved here. Okay. They weren't totally dialed into American pop culture.
No, but here's the best part. So I asked not to talk about me and they said, oh, oh, oh, you know who also lives in this neighborhood? The guy who's the fifth billing on Brooklyn nine, nine. Oh, and then that one lives over here. And I'm like, so I was just talking about doing exactly what you just did.
I pray.
Maybe you don't do like, so that that's what I don't want you to do.
There's kind of a sweet naiveness to it though. Like perhaps in his mind, he was like, good news. There's more of you on this block. You could get together and have coffee, talk about whatever you guys probably want to get together. Yeah. Talk about art and stuff.
It's a very classy block. There's a lot of celebrities.
How long were you there? About eight months. Eight months. Okay. So certainly I know you do Massachusetts, New York, Sweden. Where did you spend the bulk of your time? What cities?
Were you in LA a lot? I moved here in 83 and I've been here ever since. Oh, you weren't in New York for any of that? No. Right after college, I went to New York because my whole class was going to New York. I studied acting. Yes. And they all wanted to do plays. I knew I wanted to do movies and TV, but nobody told me, well, you know, you should actually go to L.A. instead. So I went to New York and I was like, how am I supposed to get in a movie? Yeah.
They don't make a ton there.
And then I did.
Your town in Massachusetts that you grew up in is 300 and... I did the math yesterday. It's like 312 years old. Yes. That's impossible to be in America in a town that's 300 plus years old.
Right. And I was in... They had a parade for the sesquicentennial, which was 250th anniversary, which the country is having back in the 80s. I was the... Parade Marshall. My parents and I dressed in costumes from the era. My dad grew out mutton chops.
Pilgrim-y stuff. Pilgrim-y stuff. Yeah, yeah. How close were you to Plymouth Rock? 20 minutes.
20 minutes. Wow, that's so cool.
Okay, it's also Wareham?
Wareham.
Wareham. It's also the gateway to Cape Cod, right? Yes, it is. I just asked someone this the other day who grew up in a tourist town, but when I think of... Certainly it would swell in the summer, right? The amount of people that were in your town?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Geena Davis and what early life memories shape her identity?
0:00–14:05
2
How did Geena overcome shyness with rituals, superstitions and childhood compulsions?
14:05–32:31
3
How did study abroad, modeling and a mannequin gig lead to Geena’s first big break in Tootsie?
32:31–57:30
4
What career highs and pivots followed Tootsie, from Oscars to Thelma & Louise and discovering new skills?
57:30–1:02:02
5
How did Geena discover gender imbalance in kids’ media and what study did she fund?
1:02:02–1:06:17
6
What is The Burrow(s) about and how does Geena describe her character?
1:06:17–1:10:27
7
How did Geena’s Coachella appearance with Sabrina Carpenter go viral?
1:10:27–1:13:24
8
What happened when Delta lost her stuffed Groot at Monster Jam and what did they learn?
1:13:24–2:04:36