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S15, Ep11 How To Fail: Geena Davis, the Oscar-winning actress on fame, feminism and being diagnosed with ADD in her 40s

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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Me Too Helped You Recategorize Incidents

Gina: Me Too helped me recategorize incidents in my past. I had an audition for a movie quite early on and the director acted incredibly inappropriately because he asked me to act out this sexy scene with him. After Me Too, I realized that helped me really recategorize that as assault, really. And then we come to your third failure which is your ADD diagnosis. Right. Because it came when you were 41, is that right? Yes, exactly. So, I had felt forever that there was something wrong with me that was a huge secret and had to be hidden.

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