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7/15//02 We're Hangin' With....Stuart Little's MOM! GEENA DAVIS! by Lynn b. Actress
Geena Davis has starred in several highly regarded films like Thelma
and Louise and in fantasy/horror films like The Fly and Beetlejuice
but she may be best known to young audiences as Mrs. Little, Stuart's
mom in the Stuart Little movies. She takes on the role again in Stuart
Little 2. Geena has just become a mom herself and is very interested
in family films. We talked to her about acting with a mouse that isn't
really there and her plans for future film work. Geena:
The challenge of the first film was that he didn't exist. They hadn't
made him yet. We just were just going on faith that he would come out
good. I told them, "Guys, I'm really commiting to this so if he looks
cheesy I'm going to look like an idiot. AGW: Any other new challenges? Geena: Well, the baby doesn't know she's in a movie so she doesn't want to do anything we need her to do. I was very keen that she seems like she has a relationship with Stuart. I said I could get her to do it. (she mimics trying to get the baby to look at a spot on the table). We tried everything; putting her mother under the counter, everything we could think of. AGW: What do you like about animated films? Geena: I'm a fan of a lot of the family films that have been done in recent years. Babe was very significant film to me and A Bug's Life. The new computer animated movies are wonderful. I think it's so great they're able to make something like Stuart. You couldn't have made this movie even five years ago. They didn't know how to make fur, for example. It's phenomenal to me to see something look that real like even the reflection of the window in Margola and Stuart's eyes. It's wonderful because there's more possibilities for the movies you can make with this technology. AGW: You play a very protective mother. Geena; I know. It's ridiculous that anyone would let (Stuart) play soccer anyway. It makes no sense. AGW: Would you be like that in real life? Geena:
If my child was a mouse I'd be like that. Geena: I loved Charlie's Angels and Tomb Raider. AGW: Would you do a Stuart Little 3? Geena: I don't know if I should be sheepish to admit it but I'd do Stuart Little 6. It's because I just love it. I feel like I've been treated like such an integral part of the family. It's been a wonderful experience to be so encouraged and welcomed by the producers and the director. And just to feel like a vital member of the team. As long as we keep coming up with good script ideas and something interesting to do, then I like it. AGW: Stuart has more to do in this movie than the human family does. Geena: The thing about us is that we're a lot cheaper than Stuart. Stuart's the most expensive actor in the history of movies. He's like three Jim Carreys. Anytime somebody else can do something, it's good. They can't lose the family for sure. AGW: What were some of your ideas for this film? Geena:
It was my idea that we have a baby and that it would be a girl. I like
the idea that the family keeps growing and evolving. They [the filmmakers]
took it from there. Now that [Mrs. Little's] maternal juices are flowing,
she's become this hyper insane protective parent, which I thought was
a great touch. The Littles aren't in perfect sync anymore. We're not finishing
each other's sentences. We have different ideas about this phase, I thought
that was very AGW: How do you get yourself to convincingly play someone who has a mouse for a child? Geena: (laughs) They originally thought of me for this part because I have a very active imagination and I have other interspecies experience [in The Fly]. I can go with weirdness. I've been in some strange movies. In Beetlejuice, I was dead [a ghost] but I'm very normal, just reacting to strange things. The job that needed to be done was to sell to the people watching that this is a real mouse. I love now meeting kids who ask me what's Stuart like. That's so cute that they think he's real. AGW: Is there a superhero you'd love to play? Geena: Wonder Woman's great but that costume. I don't know. She's the one that leaps to mind. AGW: You are pretty busy now with your new baby. Tell us about her. Geena; She's two and a half months. A girl named Alizeh. It's Persian. It's an old-fashioned name. Her daddy's Persian. AGW: Will you do more Stuart Littles for her? Geena; I can't wait to show it to her. I can only imagine what her reaction will be. Why is mommy on TV. Who's the mouse? AGW: Does motherhood affect your choices of film roles? Geena: I'd still do A Long Kiss Goodnight [Geena's more adult action hero role]. What I love about my work is that I can do everything. I wouldn't let (my daughter) see it for a long time but I'd still do it.
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I'm
kissing him and crying over him". I was really worried but he came
out so great so I could totally picture him on the second one. 
good.