Not only was the film about women in sport, it was directed by a woman and had an ensemble cast of mostly women—and showed them collaborating, getting dirty, and being competitive—making the piece a rarity at the time.
It’s always a challenge to sum up a celebrity in a single interview, and especially so with. After all, her career is unique. Davis’s CV covers everything from classic film roles, to narrowly missing out on a place in the Olympics, to now pushing for gender equality in the media. But the thread that ties it all together is feminism.
While most celebrities are comfortable using the F word these days, back in the early ’90s it could be anxiety-provoking. When the hit baseball comedywas being made 30 years ago, journalists treated it as a dirty word. “Every one of them would ask, ‘Is this a feminist movie?’,” Davis recalls. “Kind of an, ‘Ooh, I’m actually saying the word, this is so risqué to ask this.’ And I would say, ‘Yeah, yeah. Obviously.
It gets worse. “The other question every one of them asked: ‘So… a lot of women on the set, must be a lot of cat fighting?’, with that gleeful demeanor,” Davis remembers. Hardly a question you can imagine being put to the cast of male-led films of that time, like. Davis quickly put them straight: “I would say: ‘No, no. There’s none. We’re a team, we support each other.
Happily, unimaginative interviews aside, the Indiana set was a fun—if chaotic—place to be. “[It was] August, it was sweltering hot, but the clouds would come and go,” says Davis. “We were constantly battling with the weather. But we had a blast hanging out all together, we all really bonded and so many of us are still friends.” Once a Rockford Peach, always a Rockford Peach.
The film helped to shape Davis’s life in multiple ways. Unexpectedly, it helped unlock previously unnoticed athletic ability. “It was very, very exciting to find out that I was coordinated, even though it was at 36 that I found out!” She would turn 41 before taking up archery. “I watched the Olympics in ’96… and I thought, well, wait a minute. That is a very dramatic and beautiful sport.
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