Geena Davis says ‘we are unwittingly training kids to have unconscious bias’ at ACMI’s Goddess talk

Academy Award winner and ambassador Geena Davis has delivered the keynote address at ACMI's Goddess exhibition.

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.

‘I posit that if we are to achieve true equality, we must kill off the fathers too,’ Davis joked wryly.

‘I’d always carefully planned every opinion I was going to say, and prefaced it with “this is probably a dumb idea, but…”, whereas Susan just took one look at the script of Thelma & Louise and said to Ridley [Scott], “I don’t really think we need this first line, so let’s just cut it”.’

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Silvi Vann-Wall is a Melbourne-based journalist, podcaster, critic and filmmaker who loves frogs and improv comedy. They were the ScreenHub Film Content Lead from 2022 to 2025. Twitter (X): @SilviReports / Bluesky: @silvi.bsky.social‬ / Website: silvireports.com