“Thelma & Louise” star Geena Davis said she had a “million examples” of icky encounters in Hollywood ― but one compelled her to open up recently.
“I was auditioning for a part where in one scene, my character was going to be sitting on the lap of the male character,” she said. “The director said, ‘Just act the scene out with me,’ and made me sit on his lap. It was kind of a sexy scene. I didn’t want to do it, and I was very uncomfortable, but I didn’t know you could say no.”
Davis, 63, anticipated that the recent mass reckoning against predators and sexual harassers in the entertainment industry and elsewhere will have a lasting effect.