{"id":1214196,"date":"2022-01-13T13:19:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T18:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214196"},"modified":"2022-01-13T13:19:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T18:19:56","slug":"actress-geena-davis-rips-woke-hollywood-sexism-directors-wanted-to-make-sure-i-knew-my-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actress-geena-davis-rips-woke-hollywood-sexism-directors-wanted-to-make-sure-i-knew-my-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Geena Davis Rips Woke Hollywood Sexism: Directors &#039;Wanted to Make Sure I Knew My Place&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Factress-geena-davis-rips-woke-hollywood-sexism-directors-wanted-to-make-sure-i-knew-my-place%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214196&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/geena-davis-thelma-louise-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Actress Geena Davis blasted Hollywood sexism and ageism in a recent podcast interview, stating that after she had won an Oscar, directors \u201cwanted to make sure I knew my place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had two directors \u2014 after I won the Oscar \u2014 who I had a rocky start with, because they assumed that I was going to think I was \u2018all that,&#8217;\u201d Davis said in an interview with&nbsp;Allison Kugel on the <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/s3-e1-geena-davis-talks-thelma-louise-oscar-win-gender\/id1575771773?i=1000547541329\">latest episode<\/a> of the <em>Allison Interviews<\/em> podcast.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd they wanted to make sure that I sure didn\u2019t feel like I was all that,\u201d she added. \u201cWithout even having met me or spent time with me or anything, they just assumed I was going to be, like, \u2018Well, now nobody\u2019s going to tell me what to do.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Thelma &amp; Louise<\/em> star said that the she believes the directors \u201cdidn\u2019t want a woman to potentially cause them any problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey wanted to make sure I knew my place,\u201d Davis said of the directors\u2019 motives.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>During the interview, the&nbsp;65-year-old actress also called out a \u201cmale actor\u201d who she claims said she was too old to be his on-screen love interest \u2014 despite her being \u201c20 years younger than him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce, a male actor who was making a movie said that I was too old to be his romantic interest, and I was 20 years younger than him,\u201d Davis said. \u201cYou know what it is? Women peak in their 20s and 30s, and men peak in their 40s and 50s, as far as actors go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the male stars of the movies want to appear to be younger than they are, or they want to appeal to younger people, and so they always want a co-star who is really young,\u201d the actress continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why that happens, and that\u2019s why women don\u2019t get cast very much after 40 and 50,\u201d she added. \u201cIt is because they are felt to be too old to be a romantic interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davis went on to say that she was inspired to create the&nbsp;Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media \u2014&nbsp;an organization that researches gender representation in media, and advocates for more representation of women \u2014 after&nbsp;starring in the 1991 crime drama <em>Thelma&nbsp;&amp; Louise<\/em> and witnessing people\u2019s reactions to the film.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt was so extreme,\u201d she said. \u201cIt made me realize, \u2018Wow, we really give women so few opportunities to feel like this after watching a movie \u2014 to be able to identify with a female character and live vicariously through them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After that, Davis said that she decided to \u201cpay&nbsp;attention to this and try to choose roles that make women feel good,\u201d Davis, adding that after paying closer attention to the entertainment industry, she saw \u201can imbalanced world\u201d everywhere she looked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw it everywhere, in movies, and TV,\u201d the actress said. \u201cI found that no one else in Hollywood seemed to be recognizing what I saw. And I talked to lots and lots of creators who said, \u2018No, no, no, that\u2019s not a problem anymore. That\u2019s been fixed.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Davis apparently believed that the issue had not been fixed, and that\u2019s when she decided to \u201cget the data\u201d and&nbsp;launch her institute, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Davis is no stranger to calling out woke Hollywood. Last year, the actress&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/07\/28\/actress-geena-davis-calls-out-woke-hollywood-not-inclusive-when-it-comes-to-roles-for-older-women\/\">blasted<\/a> Hollywood for falsely flaunting its social justice bonafides while not being inclusive when it comes to providing roles for older women.<\/p>\n<p>The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/10\/09\/actress-geena-davis-nbcuniversal-to-use-bias-technology-to-examine-black-representation\/\">teamed up<\/a> with&nbsp;NBCUniversal last year to expand the organization\u2019s \u201cSpellcheck for Bias\u201d to analyze black, Asian, and Pacific Islander representation.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and Twitter at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Geena Davis blasted Hollywood sexism and ageism in a recent podcast interview, stating that after she had won an Oscar, directors \u201cwanted to make sure I knew my place.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}