11. Geena Davis worked as a mannequin
Did you know that Geena Davis used to make money by modeling clothing alongside the mannequins at Ann Taylor? According to her, she got the job as such: “One time there was a window display where the mannequins were sitting at a table eating plastic food. There was one empty chair, and I kept looking at the window.”
She immediately went and sat on that empty chair. “Somebody saw me do that, and then he stopped to see what was now going to happen. But I just froze…I didn’t know, but I had an uncanny ability to be still.”
After a couple of minutes some persons gathered, trying to figure out if she was real or not. “When I felt like their attention was drifting, I would move kind of like a robot. But then somebody said, ‘Well, that’s not an electric mannequin because it’s not plugged in.’ ” So, the next time she sat at that table, she attached a little wire down her leg to seem more convincing.
