Why did Geena Davis’s career go down the shitter?

When she married that guy who then directed her in that awful movie.

I love her, but she’s had some poor choices in roles. Loved her in Beetlejuice, ALOTO and Long Kiss Goodnight.

She was lucky she did as well as she did, seeing she was basically a model who crossed over into acting. She has a genuine gift for light comedy (she's very charming in "Earth Girls are Easy," for example), but had trouble establishing herself in genres like action/adventure or serious drama.

Was it that pirate movie that killed her career? The one with Matthew Modine.

R4 you’re correct

R3 right! She does well in light comedic roles that can delve a little into drama. Her character has to be kind in nature the whole film. Can’t imagine her playing a convincing villain/antihero.

R4, yes Cutthroat Island.

Her head got big after “Thelma and Louise” and “A League of their Own”. She wanted to be the main star in all her pictures and have creative input. Post-Thelma, she also wanted to be the female version of Hollywood male superstars and lead action films, which was a big mistake, especially when she started to approach 40.

Her best performance are her ensemble pieces where she could be bit quirky - “Accidental Tourist” and her underrated performance in “Hero” (otherwise a terrible Stephen Frears movie). She wasn’t “everywoman” enough to sustain a leading lady career.

She’s aging well and doesn’t look like she’s taken too many drastic measures.

Careers in Hollywood usually don’t last long.

R6 I forgot about Hero. She’s very good in that.

Yes. Cutthroat Island by her then director husband.

I thinks she’s done ok, but should’ve kept playing primarily quirky characters, which is definitely her wheel house. She had a brief renaissance when she played the president in Commander In Chief and won a globe for it, but nothing compared to her 80s and early 90s output.

Her autobiography is great. Funny and smart like her. So wonderful in her Oscar-winning role as Muriel in Accidental Tourist. She’s bad ass in Long Kiss Goodnight. I agree with others that Renny Harlan ruined her-she says as much in her book. She’s says they became total assholes together.

I just hope she's not cast in "Book Club Part 3" soon. She's better than that!

She did a Family Ties spin-off with Alfre Woodard

How could one movie kill her career? That wouldn't happen today.

Renny Harlin directed the new Strangers remake with Froy.

Vageena Davis.

Too tall.

In 2006 she was on the initial wish list to play Little Edie to Meryl Streep's Big Edie in a feature film that eventually became that HBO TV movie with Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange. What would that have been like?

Heather Menses

The Curse of Susan Sarandon.

I love the scene in Thelma and Louise where she is thinking back on how Louise shot the guy. She can't stop laughing and is saying stuff like the look on his face...he wasn't expecting that!

“The Long Kiss Goodnight” is a great movie. She definitely could have been a great female action hero had she gotten the chance.

“Cutthroat Island” was painful.

She made the mistake of being an aging actress.

[quote] Loved her in Beetlejuice, ALOTO

There no such acronym as ALOTO. Stop being fat and lazy and type.

She’s had multiple tv shows.

Awesome r12, I didn't know this existed!

Just got the audiobook (which she narrates)

How did she get the hersholt award? I read about her foundation but compared to some people who have gotten it (Audrey Hepburn, Martha Raye, Harry Belafonte) and haven’t (Danny Thomas and family, Gary Sinise) her award seem to be given more for the fact that what her foundation does research on (representation) was a hot button issue at the time as opposed to what its actual impact was. I mean St. Jude’s research and treatments have been a big part in increasing the childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to 80%. I know Gary Sinise is conservative but his foundation has raised over $300 million for veterans.

Hell Joan Crawfords TV PSA encouraging women to get the pap test as part of their regular medical checkups has been credited for being one of the reasons why the Pap test became part of the routine medical check ups for women and why cervical cancer cases dropped by more than 80% in years since.

Firstly, she's a tall woman most of the leading men are quite short. Having to wear mostly panties in Tootsie, she landed Thelma & Louise. I don't think she wanted a career as a girl/ wife/ hooker, so she waited for good projects. I think the mistake actors make is thinking every role is the lead. She is not a leading actor. A wonderful light comedienne, deft at drama and savvy enough to produce projects. Then she went on an Olympic Archery journey, which was so left field. No one knew who she was.

She refuses to do anal. There’s a huge opportunity for 7ft9 women like her to bend over for short Hollywood producers. She lost out on several roles because of her no back door policy.

Audiences found the cheek mole distracting.

I hate this OP troll.

[quote] Having to wear mostly panties in Tootsie, she landed Thelma & Louise.

Although her panty scenes were the highlight of Tootsie she already had a very good reputation as the co-star with Dabney Coleman in the critics favorite Buffalo Bill where she kept on her clothes.

R29, i believe after she wore the panties she won an Oscar which then led to her casting in ‘Thelma and Louise’.

She had an interesting career. She was an ingenue for quite some time and then came supporting roles in bigger films (‘Beetlejuice’ and ‘The Fly’) before Larry Kasdan took a chance her and gave her the part of Muriel Pritchett in ‘The Accidental Tourist’ for which she won an Oscar. She still wasn’t a bankable Hollywood name until ‘Thelma and Louise’ made headlines for its, at the time, ground breaking portrayal of women escaping the clutches of sexist men. That halo didn’t last long unfortunately. ‘A League of their Own” was a big hit, but nothing that came after that move was. After multiple flops (‘Hero’, ‘Speechless’, ‘Angie’, ‘Cutthroat Island’, ‘Long Kiss Goodnight’) and approaching 40, Hollywood kicked her to the curb.

I thought she was stunning during her prime years. Statuesque, beautiful, and smart.

Magic panties R34!

She was no Andie MacDowell

Sharon Stone had the fire, charisma and star power Geena lacked, which is why Sharon took Geena’s place as one of the hottest stars of the 1990s.

I can't imagine anyone portraying Muriel Pritchett as faithful to the book as Geena did. It was almost as if Anne Tyler wrote the character specifically with Geena in mind.

I blame the overly wide face.

ANGIE

I've heard she became difficult after her string of successes in the late '80s and early '90s, and she's also super tall and not that versatile.

Credit where it's due -- she is one of the few actors to thank the author of the book on which her Oscar-winning film was based in her acceptance speech.

She took time off to become an "Olympian" in a sport that is obscure in the USA.

Smart people don't always make the best decisions. Her best decision was Jeff Goldblum, and that fizzled rapidly.

I've always enjoyed Geena Davis. Always pleasant to watch, and I think she's done well with both comedy and drama.

It's a real bummer that the short-lived ABC series "Commander in Chief" didn't last. She was perfectly suited for it, won the Globe, etc... but the change in showrunners and the network prematurely axing it just screwed it over. That could have been a real 2nd act resurgence for her had it lasted at least a good 5 to 6 seasons.

When I was an NP one of our residents dated Geena Davis and there was a picture of the two of them attending a gala from a newspaper tacked onto our bulletin board. All the interns and residents were gaga that the guy got to date Geena Davis. They all adored her. They saw her as gorgeous and sexy, but down to earth.

What's an NP r45?