Geena Davis‘s memoir, “Dying Of Politeness,” dropped earlier this month, and in it, the actress has loads of tales from her rise to fame and subsequent profession. But probably the greatest tales is one she informed The New Yorker in a current profile, in regards to the profession recommendation her “Tootsie” co-star Dustin Hoffman informed her to keep at bay the sexual advances of different actors.
Vanity Fair (through The New Yorker) particulars Davis’ story about how Hoffman helped her early in her profession. In between takes on “Tootsie,” Hoffman informed her to “read a lot of books,” but additionally an excellent line to beat again flirtatious actors. Here’s the road Hoffman gave Davis: “Well, you’re very attractive. I would love to, but it would ruin the sexual tension between us.” And guess who Davis used it on first? None aside from Jack Nicholson.
Davis recounted the incident to The New Yorker. “After “Tootsie”, my modeling agent took me and a few different actor-slash-models to Hollywood to satisfy casting administrators,” stated Davis. “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! So I said, ‘Hello, Mr. Nicholson. This is Geena the model. You called me?’ He said, ‘Hey, Geena. When is it gonna happen?’”
That’s when Davis dropped Hoffman’s line on the unsuspecting Nicholson. “I was like, Oh, no—why didn’t I realize this is what it was going to be about? But it immediately came into my head what to say: ‘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.’ He was like, ‘Oh, man, where’d you get that?’ So it worked.”
The irony of the story is that Hoffman has since been accused of sexual misconduct, which he has denied. And when these allegations went public in 2018, it was none of aside from Davis’ “Quick Change” co-star Bill Murray who got here to Hoffman’s protection. “Dustin Hoffman is a great man,” Murray stated throughout an look at New York City’s 92nd Street Y in 2018. “He’s crazy, a borscht belt flirt, has been his whole life. [But] he’s a really sweet man.”
Murray is presently in sizzling water for an alleged incident on the set of “Being Mortal” earlier this 12 months, however Davis has a Murray story of her personal from the “Quick Change” set. The actress claims Murray examined if she could be “compliant” by requesting she lied on a mattress and take a look at a therapeutic massage machine known as “The Thumper.” In her memoir, Davis wrote, “I said no multiple times, but he wouldn’t relent.” Murray additionally allegedly screamed at Davis throughout the filming of “Quick Change.”
It’s good to listen to that Davis successfully executed Hoffman’s line in opposition to Nicholson. However, it additionally makes one marvel what attainable future allegations might come out in opposition to him, Murray, and different actors of their era within the memoirs of different actresses.