Geena Davis is spilling all the tea on one of the most defining films of her prolific career -- Thelma & Louise . Sitting down for her ET rETrospective from the Bentonville Film Festival, the 68-year-old actress dished on falling in love with the Louise ( Susan Sarandon ) to her Thelma while filming the 1991 flick and why she had the deciding vote on who should get to play the role of J.D.
-- a job that ultimately helped to launch Brad Pitt 's career. Davis has previously shared that Pitt, throughout the casting process, was in stiff competition as she also read with Mark Ruffalo , George Clooney and Melrose Place star Grant Show before inadvertently picking the Moneyball actor, 60, for the part. "Listen, I don't want to take any credit whatsoever, Brad earned the part -- obviously," Davis tells ET.
"There were three other guys that I read with. They wanted to see these four final candidates and who might I have chemistry with. So one by one, they came in -- really handsome, really talented -- and then the last one was Brad Pitt.
" According to Davis, Pitt was so charming while reading for the part of bad boy J.D. -- a convicted felon who takes off with all of Thelma and Louise's money and sends them into a crime spree -- that she could barely focus on her own lines.
"I was so distracted by how charismatic he is, he just oozes charisma. But I would say my line and he'd say his line," she said as she feigned getting distracted by Pitt's looks and acting chops only to pick her l.
