![]() And yet, to hear Davis tell it, she’s spent a lifetime trying to build up inner conviction. In short, if your perception of Geena Davis boils down to “Beetlejuice” and “ Thelma & Louise” and “A League of Their Own,” you’ve been missing a much quirkier, more eclectic, more persistent person. ![]() Instead of taking her observations to the press, she sponsored an extensive research project that grew into the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, an organization that uses statistics to advocate for greater onscreen diversity and gender parity, and for which Davis has collected an honorary Oscar and, last month, an honorary Emmy. Then, there’s her second career as what she calls a “middle-aged data geek.” In the early two-thousands, sidelined from Hollywood in her forties, she began wondering why the kids’ shows that she watched with her two-year-old daughter had so few female characters. Oh, and she’s a world-class archer who was a semifinalist for the Olympic trials in 1999. She later filled a guest bathroom with fifty working cuckoo clocks.) She’s an elaborate pumpkin carver. (A house that she shared with her second husband, Jeff Goldblum, had a “Weddingland” bathroom, complete with fake flowers, cake toppers, and a picket fence. She has an idiosyncratic interior-design flair. As a young woman, she once posed as a mannequin in a store window and learned that she had a talent for staying motionless. Aside from being an Oscar-winning movie star, she speaks Swedish, which she picked up during a high-school exchange program. The “Special Skills” section of Geena Davis’s résumé would be a doozy.
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