![]() ![]() Interestingly, Davis shares that Donahue was the first person to approach her about such a project. ![]() I tried to be as active as I could and as he needed me to be,” she says. “My institute provided the research that was in the film and I tried to help get him interviews with people he was interested in talking to. She was able to see some of what he wanted the narrative to be, and “it was right up my alley,” so she signed on as an executive producer and also agreed to sit down for one of the interviews for the piece. She recalls that he had already raised all of the funding and had acquired a number of interviews “with powerful people” before she came aboard. Davis, who originally was inspired to start her institute because she wanted her children to grow up in a world were they all saw themselves well-reflected on screen, came to the doc by way of Donahue himself. As President Allen, I had a very short administration. I was so bummed when ABC's Commander in Chief went off the air. There are definitely more opportunities on TV, both in front of and behind the camera. You got 12 big movie roles (plus an Oscar) in your 30s and just two in your 40s. I'd like to be like Captain Marvel - that strong. I commit a thousand percent to something and see it through. You've said you'd like to play a Marvel superhero. You can reinvent yourself and find positions of more control and power in your life. Even on the show, she's a great role model for the girls on the wrestling team because she shows there's life after whatever you're doing. She's a former Vegas showgirl who's made a whole new career for herself in management, in charge of entertainment at a hotel. Is your GLOW character Sandy Devereaux St. We're showing them that boys do everything, all the important stuff. So I decided, “I'm going to make my acting choices differently now.” Then it was when my daughter was a toddler, and I suddenly realized how shockingly male-dominated kids’ entertainment was. It made me realize how few opportunities we give women to feel empowered by female characters. What made you decide to devote your life to women in entertainment? One thing that has changed in the past few years: Movies starring a female character have made significantly more money than movies starring a male character. Female directors are still around 4 percent, with equally poor numbers for editors, cinematographers, writers and producers. Then it was The Hunger Games: “Now everything is going to change.” Then it was Wonder Woman. Female road pictures, female buddy pictures.” I was very excited. The press was predicting “ Thelma & Louise is going to change everything - now we're going to see so many movies starring women. See, everybody thinks that - that's part of the problem. Your Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media says that the ratio of male to female characters in film has remained 3 to 1 since 1946. It's pretty astounding, the level of gender discrimination that goes on in the entertainment industry. It's a very powerful look at what's going on, very eye-opening to men and women when they see it all laid out. Why did you produce the documentary This Changes Everything, about Hollywood's underrepresentation (and misrepresentation) of women, featuring Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Judd Apatow, Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Oh and Cate Blanchett? She tells AARP about her fight to change Hollywood and her presidential plans - on- and off-screen. And her documentary This Changes Everything also opens Aug. She's costarring in her first female-dominated drama since 1992's A League of Their Own: Netflix's excellent 1980s lady-wrestler show GLOW (third season premiere Aug. ![]()
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