The fashion world did not embrace Geena Davis’ look at the 1992 Oscars — and she still doesn’t understand why.
The League of Their Own actress reflected on the disappointing reaction to her outfit at the Academy Awards — a sleek ivory dress with black straps and a long, bright white train accompanied by black shoes and dark pantyhose.
“I was surprised,” Davis said of the reaction to the dress, which was “made specifically” for her by Ruth Meyers and Bill Hargate in an interview with Us. “And I went to a lunch with several other female actors at some point before the next Oscars, and we were all talking and somehow that dress came up and I said, ‘You know, f— them. I thought that was great. I should just wear it again this coming year.’ And they were like, ‘Yeah, let’s all wear copies of it!’ It was my favorite fantasy — that we would do that. But I thought it was awesome.”
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Geena Davis at the 1992 Oscars
However, she did admit that she wishes she’d ditched the pantyhose. “I think that would’ve helped if I didn’t,” she said. “But I still have it. I have all my Oscar gowns that weren’t borrowed, packed in, like, bridal boxes preserved.”
Davis was nominated for Best Actress for her performance in Thelma & Louise alongside her costar Susan Sarandon, marking one of the only instances where two actresses from the same film were nominated in the lead actress category (though they both lost to Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs).
Davis told Us that she learned a valuable lesson from Sarandon on the Thelma & Louise set.
“[Susan] modeled something I hadn’t been exposed to too much until then: a woman who says what she thinks without qualifiers,” the actress said. “My life was apologizing for existing. It changed my perspective.”
The Accidental Tourist actress explained how Sarandon spoke her mind during production.
“I was dazzled, I was stunned that she would just say, ‘Why don’t we cut this line? Why don’t we do this? Why don’t we do that?’ Whatever. And whoever would say yes or no, whatever, but it was normal,” she said. “And normalized [it] for me. I was like, ‘Oh, my God.’ It really was a stunning development in my life to be able to live in that space for months, watching her move through the world. It really changed my perspective.”
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Geena Davis photographed in June 2024
Davis remembers Thelma & Louise fondly, but doesn’t think the film — which ends with the two titular heroines driving off of a cliff to certain doom — leaves room for a follow-up.
“Every movie I’ve ever done, I wanted to do a sequel to, so I could be that character again, except, of course, Thelma & Louise, because we’re dead,” she said.
That doesn’t stop fans from asking about another installment, though.
“I’ve had so many people say to me … Is there gonna be a sequel?'” Davis said. “I’m like, ‘What? Really? What do you think happened?’ Anyway, obviously I adore that movie.”
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