Geena Davis on the audition she had with Brad Pitt

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Graham Norton - Brad Pitt owes his entire career to someone on our account and that would be Gina Davis..

Gina Davis - Yeah… no

Graham - because you did Thelma Louise was his first film.

Gina - well I had done very little, I think it might have been his first film I'm not.

Graham - yeah and uh and why did you say yes to him.

Gina - well, actually uh; it was down to once. I was cast it was down to four finalists for that role and uh they said would you read with them. So we could see you know you're like and each one came in and each one was very handsome they all had brown hair and very talent. I was but had no you know; I didn't care who it was going to be and then the fourth one who comes in is Brad Pitt and uh and he's so charismatic and so incredibly talented. That I was like screwing up his audition; because I was just like, I forget to say my line and because I'm just like wow he's really talented. uh so uh… so then I didn't know if they wanted my opinion or not but I said would you be interested in knowing what my reaction was oh yeah but please I was like the blonde one… was it my. I was not responsible for it.

Graham - do you know what happened to the other three

Gina - Yes. uh I didn't know who they were at the time but it turns out it was Grant Show and Mark Ruffalo and then the third person I was sitting next to on a flight from Europe back to L.A and then the flight attendants met me at the door and said guess who you're sitting next to. I said guess who he's sitting next year. just for once in my life I said the right thing at the right time. And uh, anyway this this gentleman uh was uh; you know very friendly and great and he finally said you know I hate Brad Pitt. I said no you don't he's like a really good friend of yours. He said; no I hate him because he got the part and I said oh did you want the, the part and he said you couldn't tell when I auditioned with you and it was George Clooney and you didn't remember him at all..

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