Geena Davis reveals how she used Dustin Hoffman's advice to fend off Jack Nicholson's advances
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Geena Davis explained how she allegedly turned down Jack Nicholson's sexual advances by imbibing lessons she learned from Dustin Hoffman. In a recent interview with The New Yorker, the actress noted the moment she said, "Uh, Jack, I would love to. You’re very attractive. But I have a feeling we’re going to work together at some point in the future, and I would hate to have ruined the sexual tension between us."
Geena explained the situation, saying she used her 'Tootsie' co-star Dustin Hoffman's advice almost verbatim to politely reject Jack. Hoffman had apparently told her, in the event stars ever propositioned her, to use the "it would ruin the sexual tension between us" line to fend them off. She remembered, “After ‘Tootsie,’ my modeling agent took me and a couple of other actor-slash-models to Hollywood to meet casting directors."
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She added, "He happened to know Jack Nicholson, and every single night Jack Nicholson had dinner with us. Then one day there was a note under the door that said, ‘Please call Jack Nicholson at this number.’ I was, like, ‘I can’t believe it!’” she said. However, she did dial the given number and speak to Nicholson. She recounted, “So I said, ‘Hello, Mr Nicholson. This is Geena the model. You called me?’ He said, ‘Hey, Geena. When is it gonna happen?’ I was, like, ‘Oh, no — why didn’t I realize this is what it was going to be about?'" reports Page Six.
However, as mentioned above, Geena dodged 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' actor deftly. Recently, Geena also detailed her encounter with another actor, Bill Murray in her memoir 'Dying of Politeness.' The actress explained Murray greeted her in a hotel suite with a massage device he insisted on using on her. However, Geena refused. She claimed that Murray also screamed at her for being late to production in front of all their colleagues.
According to The Times, Geena wrote she was introduced to Murray in a hotel suite, "where Murray greets her with something called The Thumper, a massage device he insists on using on her, despite her emphatically refusing." "Later, while they’re filming on location, Murray tracks Davis down in her trailer and begins screaming at her for being late (she’s waiting for her wardrobe), continues to scream at her as she hurries onto the set and even as she gets there, in front of hundreds of cast, crew, curious passers-by," the publication added. "'That was bad,' Davis said of her audition with Murray as she mused about how she might have handled the incident differently."
The 'Thelma & Louise' icon, who previously spoke on Allisons Podcast, said, “Without having met me or having spent any time with me or anything, they just assumed I was going to be like, ‘Well, now no one is going to tell me what to do!". She then continued, "I think maybe because I was a woman, the directors felt that way. And maybe it was even unconscious bias that they would maybe do it to a woman and not a man. But they didn’t want a woman to potentially cause them any problems.”
