Geena Davis Reveals Susan Sarandon Inspired Her To Speak Out: ‘She Says What She Thinks’

Geena Davis admitted that she learned a batch from Susan Sarandon when the 2 actresses were making their iconic 1991 film Thelma and Louise. Geena, 66, revealed that she’d ne'er encountered a pistillate rather similar Susan, 76, during an interrogation on The View on Tuesday, October 11. She said that moving connected the movie unneurotic was a large acquisition for her to learn.

Geena revealed that she was precise impressed by Susan from the infinitesimal that the 2 started moving connected the movie together, and she said it was “two months of learning” from the Dead Man Walking star. “From the archetypal day, she was a benignant of pistillate that I’d ne'er truly spent a batch of clip with, which is simply a pistillate who says what she thinks,” she said. “I ne'er said thing without ‘I don’t cognize what you think, this is astir apt a atrocious idea,’ but she conscionable was like, ‘I deliberation we should chopped this line.’ You could accidental that and cipher is freaking out?”

Geena and Susan archetypal met portion making ‘Thelma and Louise’ together. (Snap/Shutterstock)

Earlier successful the discussion, Geena besides said that erstwhile she archetypal got the script, she was unfastened to either starring role, but aft gathering Susan, she knew that she was the cleanable histrion for Louise. “I wasn’t definite if I wanted to beryllium Thelma oregon Louise, and I thought I could play either part,” she said. “The 2nd I met her, I was like, ‘Who was I kidding? I couldn’t beryllium Louise!'”

The award-winning actress was appearing connected the amusement to sermon her caller memoir Dying of Politeness. The publication was released connected Tuesday, but 1 of the aboriginal excerpts that made headlines was her accusing her Quick Change co-star Bill Murray of screaming astatine her while making the movie.

Geena and Susan’s 1991 flick has been immoderate of the actresses’ astir fashionable work. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

Susan wasn’t the lone co-star that Geena spoke astir on The View. The A League of Their Own actress besides opened up astir aboriginal tips that Dustin Hoffman gave her portion moving connected her archetypal movie Tootsie. She revealed that The Graduate actor had fixed her 2 pieces of advice: ever ticker the dailies and “never slumber with your co-stars,” and she besides revealed a hilarious enactment that he’d advised her to usage if a chap histrion tried to marque a move. “Oh, I’m precise flattered. You’re precise attractive, but I’m acrophobic it would ruin the intersexual chemistry betwixt us,” she quipped.