See Geena Davis & Susan Sarandon Recreate their kiss "Thelma & Louise"
The actors gathered during a 30th anniversary filtering for the emblematic film of the 90s.
Thirty years ago,Geena Davis andSusan Sarandon played in Thelma and Louise respectively in therevolutionary film This broken stereotypes of women and described the power of female friendship. The actors have recently celebratedThelma and Louise Anniversary milestone to a projection in Los Angeles and they could not help but share their love for each other and the film that has changed everything for them (and women everywhere). Read it to see Gena Davis and Susan Sarandon's Sweet Kiss at the celebration and hear what they had to say about the inheritance of the film.
Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon shared a kiss in the iconicThelma and Louise convertible.
Davis, 64 and Sarandon, 74, gathered at aThelma and Louise30th anniversary screening, hosted by MGM and Cinespia, Greek Theater June 18 in Los Angeles. For the special occasion, they also wore assorted shirts: the reading of Sarandon, "she is my thelma and I am his Louise", and Davis's said, "It's my Louise and I'm his thelma."
They also gathered for a photo-op in the legendary Turquoise Thunderbird of Turquoise Ford Turquoise. Sarandon grabbed Davis's face and went to take a kiss, just like his character in theFinal Scene of the Film Before women drive a cliff car in the Grand Canyon.
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The famous kiss was the idea of Sarandon.
The original kiss inThelma and Louisehas not been scripted. It was a suggestion of Sarandon, and she had a chance to succeed. "We had a catch when the sun was falling"Sarandon saidEntertainment tonight In a recent interview with Davis.
"There were many other dialogues in the scene and we just took that and that we put it on a hunting scene, because at that time, it seemed that we should end up with the sentences of each Rather than going on a long speech, "Sarandon remembered. "I just said toRidley [ScottThe director of the film] and Gena, I said, "I really would like to kiss you," that's what we did. A take. A juicy romantic catch then we go intoButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Region."
Davis added the moment was "really magic" for her. "When I turned to watch Susan, the characters say goodbye but [it 's the end of this incredible experience," she explained. "It was not acting. It was just the reality for me."
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Sarandon calledThelma and Louise "Revolutionary" for its representation of women on the screen.
In an interview withHollywood journalist(THR) before the projection,Sarandon saidThelma & Louise was "revolutionary" because he had two women who "were not enemies and had fun together on the screen." She added, "I think it's part of the biggest advances - today, there are so many brilliant female actors who make movies where women are not contradictory to each other and have the power to determine their own destiny. "
Sarandon shared a similar feeling withEntertainment tonight: "Most of the movies in which I went if there was more than one woman, they were automatically your enemy. If there was an older woman and a younger woman, they hated because the One was older and one was younger. Very rarely the two friends friends. There were not many movies [like that]. "
Davis said the film has changed his career and made him fight for women in Hollywood.
Davis saidTHRShe has always been struck by the strong reaction of people toThelma and Louise. "Thelma and Louise end up driving a cliff, and the viewers always looked like exalted by their history. This made me understand how much we give opportunities that we give to women to come out of a sense of film inspired and authorized by The female characters, "she said. "It changed everything on how I chose roles to move forward."
In theEntertainment tonightInterview, Davis said the film inspired him to act. In the decades sinceThelma and LouiseThe liberation of Davis and Sarandon have become defenders of gender equality in Hollywood; Davis even founded theGeena Davis Institute on Gender in the Media, that some of the 30th anniversary products Thelma and Louise The screening event will go to.
"When my daughter started looking at little children's shows, I immediately noticed that there were deeply masculine characters than the female characters of what children see," said Davis Entertainment tonight . "So, I work to get more female characters on television and movies made for children. That's what we are looking for and works."
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