Geena Davis was treated differently after she won her first Oscar — and it wasn't for the better.
Back in 1989, Geena took home the award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Accidental Tourist.
While she says she did "unexpectedly feel a tremendous feeling of having accomplished something," she recalled that following her win, several directors tried to put her in her place when she arrived on set.
"I had two directors, after I won the Oscar, who I had a rocky start with, because they assumed that I was going to think I was 'all that,' and they wanted to make sure that I didn't feel like I was 'all that,'" Geena said on the Allison Interviews podcast.
She continued, "Without having met me or having spent any time with me or anything, they just assumed I was going to be like, 'Well, now no one is going to tell me what to do!'"
Geena noted that she never expected the win to put her "at the top of the A-list" or for it to be her "magic ticket to doing everything" she wanted to do.
Instead, Geena believes the rocky relationship with the directors may have happened because she was a woman.
"I think maybe because I was a woman, the directors felt that way. And maybe it was even unconscious bias that they would maybe do it to a woman and not a man. But they didn't want a woman to potentially cause them any problems," she said.
Geena added, "They wanted to make sure I knew my place, and maybe... It probably wouldn't happen to a man."
