For Geena Davis, the two-time Academy Award-winning actress and founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, equality begins at home.
Speaking today in an exclusive keynote speech at ACMI’s Being Seen on Screen: The Importance of Representation conference, Davis recalled taking her then-toddler to a video store (back when those still existed), and lamenting that everything they watched together had only one to two, or maybe even no female characters. And if that wasn’t bad enough, if the protagonists had mothers, they almost always died.
