The Oscar winner has spent more than two decades campaigning for gender equality in the entertainment industry. Geena Davis talks about why so microscopic has changed on screen since Thelma & Louise and why this things in the real worldIt has been 25 years since Geena Davis held hands with Susan Sarandon and hurtled over a cliff in Thelma & Louise. The film – a trailblazing feminist road film and box-office smash to boot – was hailed a turning point for women in film. And for Davis,at least, it was; for the past quarter of a century she has been trying to convince others of the lessons the film taught her: that society is losing out because there are too few women on our screens.“This is my passion. It’s what I attain all day, and she laughs. And she’s not exaggerating – almost a decade ago she created the Geena Davis Institute for Gender in Media to address the gender imbalance in TV programmes and films aimed at children,while she regularly tries to convince studio heads to include more female roles.
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Source: theguardian.com