![]() I - my daughter was a toddler, and I decided she was old enough to start watching preschool shows. GROSS: How did you decide to create your institute?ĭAVIS: It was very specific, actually. I felt very unhappy with having that sort of imposed on me by other people. ![]() I thought, this is incredibly unfair, and I don't want other people deciding that I have to work less, you know, and taking away opportunities. I was very upset and angry at that happening to me. Or did you think, oh, it's me - no one wants me anymore?ĭAVIS: Oh, no. GROSS: Did you think of it as discrimination against older women? Did you think of it as there not being enough roles for women in their 40s? Which really isn't very old. I very much expected that that would not be the case. And I also expected it to be not true anymore by the time I would get to that age. It was once there was a four in front of my age, and.ĭAVIS: You know, I had heard about that for a long time, that people said that things change when you turn 40 or when you're in your 40s, but I didn't expect it to be literal. GEENA DAVIS: Well, it was pretty dramatic. When did things start to slow down in your acting career? Geena Davis and Maria Giese, welcome to FRESH AIR. Her work led to an ongoing EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, investigation into systemic discrimination against women directors, as well as an ACLU campaign against discrimination. After feeling that she was shut out of directing because she's a woman, she became an activist. Also with us is director Maria Giese, who's featured in the film, too. She's receiving an honorary Oscar this year, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, at a special ceremony in October. She is an executive producer of and is featured in the new documentary "This Changes Everything," about how women in Hollywood are pushing for more representation in front of and behind the camera. ![]() In 2004, she founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media to get the actual data comparing the number and types of male and female roles and to use that data to convince the industry of the need for change. My guest Geena Davis starred in two movies about female empowerment - "Thelma & Louise" and "A League Of Their Own." But when she got older and roles started to dry up, she realized how unempowered women were in Hollywood. Davis herself serves as an Executive Producer, and during a dinner celebrating the movie hosted by producing partner Lyft during the Toronto International Film Festival, the actor and activist was realistic about the current state of things.This is FRESH AIR. The director partnered with The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media to make the film, which paints an impressively full picture of how Hollywood’s gender imbalance is sustained and also how it reverberates throughout the culture. So the title of Tom Donahue’s and production studio CreativeChaos vmg’s documentary This Changes Everything isn’t a self-referential pat on the back - it’s an ironic reference to the film industry’s ongoing lack of parity. But while films like Thelma & Louise, Black Panther, and Hidden Figures have come and gone over the years, the output of Hollywood has yet to significantly shift. We hear it every time a movie that’s not predominantly about white men makes a lot of money at the box office: this is going to change everything. The Documentary ‘This Changes Everything’ Explains Why Gender Equality STILL Hasn’t Happened In Hollywood ![]()
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