Geena Davis Knows Women Are Good for Hollywood

MATTIE KAHN

PERHAPS THE SET OF Stuart Little isn’t where feminists expected to battle gender norms, but trust Geena Davis to open a front line when she sees one. In the movie Davis plays Eleanor Little, mother to George and to Stuart, the mouse-son the Little family decides to take in. Once, between takes, Davis watched one of the second-unit directors line up extras for a boat-race scene in Central Park. “He found a little boy and gave him a remote control and had him sit on the edge of the water,” Davis says. “Then he found a little girl to come and stand behind him as his cheerleader.” Over and over the pattern repeated: boy, contender; girl, admirer. It took Davis a second, and then it struck her. Oh, wait a minute, she…

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Glamour (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2019

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