Geena Davis

Geena Davis Recalls 'Awful' TV Interview With Bill Murray, Who Pulled Down Her Dress Strap: His Behavior Was 'So Devastating'. By Zack Sharf.

Seth Green, meanwhile, [revealed that he was only 9 years old](https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/seth-green-bill-murray-harassment-snl-cried-1235404081/) when Murray grabbed him by his ankles and dumped him in the trash while backstage at “Saturday Night Live.” “I said no multiple times, but he wouldn’t relent,” Davis writes in the book. The actors were on “The Arsenio Hall Show” to promote “Quick Change.” He allegedly continued to berate her in front of the film’s cast and crew when she showed up to the set. “Yeah, I swear,” Davis responded. Telling it that way, just as a humorous anecdote, I must have thought, ‘Well, it’s ultimately funny, or makes a good story,’ when in fact it was so devastating.”

In a recent interview, Geena Davis said her experience of being pawed and nuzzled by a creepy Bill Murray on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1990 was "awful," and ...

"I did?" "I forgot that. "It's awful."

Davis detailed Murray's harassment during her "Quick Change" audition in a 1990 appearance on "The Arsenio Hall Show."

“I found out later that it was because I had just won an Oscar,” she said. “Yeah, I swear,” Davis said in response. “I forgot that. The interview features Murray repeatedly pulling down Davis’ dress strap and touching her arm, and Davis speaks about their initial meeting in a hotel room. She tells the story in a lighthearted manner with a smile on her face, as if nothing was inappropriate about the encounter. But, you know, I was so non-confrontational that I just didn’t.”

Actor also said her experience during an audition with Murray for the film 'Quick Change' was 'so devastating'

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Geena Davis used advice from her 'Tootsie' co-star Dustin Hoffman to get out of a date with Jack Nicholson. The 'Thelma and Louise' star has revealed Dustin offered her plenty of wisdom on how to navigate Hollywood when they worked together on the 1982 ...

Hoffman, who has been accused of sexual misconduct himself, gave Davis a tip for rebuffing advances from her costars that she actually used.

She wrote that the actor tested if she would be “compliant” by requesting that she lie on a bed and try a massage device called “the Thumper.” Wrote Davis, “I said no multiple times, but he wouldn’t relent.” During filming, Murray allegedly also screamed at Davis on set. Oz’s Senate Campaign](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/10/dr-oz-dog-killing-pennsylvania-senate-race?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-101122)? [Gisele Bündchen’s New Chapter](https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2009/5/and-god-created-gisele?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-101122)(2009) 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.’ He was like, ‘Oh, man, where’d you get that?’ So it worked.” [But] he’s a really sweet man.” [Marriage Problems](https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/10/tom-brady-gisele-bundchen-10-year-old-marriage-problems-going-on-forever-divorce?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-101122)Are Reportedly “10 Years Old” “He’s crazy, a borscht belt flirt, has been his whole life. Davis continued: “I was like, Oh, no—why didn’t I realize this is what it was going to be about? [Jack Nicholson](https://www.avclub.com/jack-nicholson-michael-keaton-making-flops-after-batman-1849040682?_ga=2.239912771.1966672911.1666014527-1488648406.1652714420), and every single night Jack Nicholson had dinner with us,” she told the outlet. “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! Davis told The New Yorker that she “saved that advice away” and used it not long after—on Jack Nicholson. But it immediately came into my head what to say: ‘Uh, Jack, I would love to.

Geena Davis has shared that she used advice from Dustin Hoffman to shut down a sexual advance from Jack Nicholson.

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.’ He was, like, ‘Oh, man, where’d you get that?’ So it worked.” “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! I would love to, but it would ruin the sexual tension between us.”

"And I saved that advice away," Davis explained. "After 'Tootsie,' my modelling agent took me and a couple of other actor-slash-models to Hollywood to meet ...

"He was, like, 'Oh, man, where'd you get that?'" Davis recalled. 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.'" When is it gonna happen?' I was, like, Oh, no—why didn’t I realize this is what it was going to be about?" [Jack Nicholson](https://toofab.com/people/jack-nicholson/), and every single night Jack Nicholson had dinner with us." "And I saved that advice away," Davis explained. [The New Yorker](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/geena-davis-is-ready-for-the-geenaissance), Davis shared the anecdote -- which is also featured in her new memoir "Dying of Politeness" -- in service of praising Hoffman's influence in her life.

The actor claimed that she once shut down sexual advances from Nicholson by recalling some advice given to her by her Tootsie co-star. In a new interview with ...

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It was advice from Dustin Hoffman that Geena Davis turned to when Jack Nicholson made unwanted sexual advances to her back in her early days in acting.

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.' When is it gonna happen?'" Davis claimed. "But it immediately came into my head what to say: 'Uh, Jack, I would love to. "So I said, 'Hello, Mr. Davis opened up to The New Yorker. "Well, you're very attractive.

After starring in 1991 thriller Thelma & Louise, Geena Davis became a female movie icon. Here's all the information you need about the Hollywood actress: Who is ...

Her divorce from Harlin affected Davis greatly as she found out he fathered a child with another woman. Her second marriage was to her frequent co-star Jeff Goldblum. Davis, was a civil engineer and church deacon. - The Accidental Tourist. - The Fly. Davis is the recipient of two Academy Awards - firstly for her role in The Accidental Tourist which won her the Best Supporting Actress, and later the Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

While on 'The Arsenio Hall Show' back in 1990, Bill Murray stroked Geena Davis' arm as she joked about an uncomfortable audition with him.

"So he gets out this Thumper thing and he says, 'You should try this, I'm going to massage your back with this thing,' and I'm thinking 'No way,' " Davis said in the 1990 interview. "For publicity, I saw him after we made the movie, but other than that, I haven't seen him or spoken to him," Davis recently told PEOPLE. In Davis' memoir, the actress wrote that she "said no multiple times, but he wouldn't relent," of the hotel-room moment with Murray. After playfully telling Murray to "shut up" at one point as he continued the bit, Davis continued by saying she went back for a second audition for the part. "It's called the Thumper," Murray said, which prompted Hall's audience to cheer. "He touched you a lot in the audition?" Davis responded with a smile, "Yeah," as the audience laughed. "Is this a story you want to tell?" "Really?" During the interview with Hall, Davis told the talk show host that her audition for Quick Change "was a lot like this, in fact," as Murray reached his left arm around her and ran his hand up and down her arm. "Oh, you saw?" "Telling it that way, just as a humorous anecdote, I must have thought, 'Well, it's ultimately funny or makes a good story,' when in fact it was so devastating."

Footage shows Murray running his fingers up and down Davis' arm and pulling down the straps of her dress during an appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show that same ...

Actor also said her experience during an audition with Murray for the film 'Quick Change' was 'so devastating'

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Davis, who starred in the 1982 romantic comedy Tootsie opposite Hoffman, revealed that her former co-star gave her advice that helped her deal with the ...

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.’ He was, like, ‘Oh, man, where’d you get that?’ So it worked.” “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! I would love to, but it would ruin the sexual tension between us.”

Following news that a $100000 settlement was reached due to a complaint that Bill Murray had allegedly acted inappropriately with a woman on the set of an ...

“I really, really do recognize that it wasn’t my fault.” “Really?” asked Hall. “I forgot that,” Davis said of the talk show appearance.