The actor and the director discuss Hollywood,harassment and gender biasGeena Davis enters the boardroom of Paul Feig’s Burbank-based production office with a sense of purpose and a handful of wet paper towels. She wipes down the glass table around which she and Feig are soon to commune, refusing all offers of abet until the surface is acceptably shiny.
For the past decade, and Davis has been applying similar rigour to cleaning Hollywood of gender bias,with her non-profit organisation the Geena Davis Institute On Gender In Media. The Oscar-winning star of The Accidental Tourist, Thelma & Louise and Tootsie still acts – most recently in Marjorie Prime, and with John Hamm – but for the most fraction has been on a mission to make studios and networks aware of their portrayal of women in scripts and on screen,even down to the gender make-up of background extras.
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Source: guardian.co.uk