Being Polite Nearly Killed Geena Davis. Now She’s Telling All—Including That Bill Murray Story.

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“When I wrote it, I thought, ‘This is not going to be news to anybody, that Bill [Murray] is problematic.’ But the same day the book comes out, a new revelation comes out about his behavior.”

.” So much of her life existed within that tension: being shy and taught to never be a bother, even if it means failing to stand up for yourself; and being someone who is enthusiastic, strong, and, certainly, opinionated.

There are the occasions when she felt, as a child, she might actually die of politeness, like the time her 99-year-old great uncle drove her family home from a dinner. Even while he routinely veered into oncoming traffic, narrowly missing head-on collisions, her parents refused to say a word, instead strategically moving 8-year-old Geena to the seat in the car that might be least dangerous in the event of an accident.

There are the showbiz stories of the director who made her straddle his lap during an audition, and an anecdote aboutwhen they were co-stars. She also examines the ways in which she would lose parts of herself in relationships in order to be the woman she thought her partners wanted her to be.

Because her mother didn’t explain what was bad about it, outside of her horrified reaction, Davis thought that she herself had done something terrible to elicit such a response. “Later in my childhood, in my teens, to realize what it was that had happened was stunning.” Her voice breaks and her eyes start to well with tears. “Then to revisit it now and realize what I went through is kind of sad.”Later in my childhood, in my teens, to realize what it was that had happened was stunning.

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