Geena Davis says she shut down Jack Nicolson's advances using advice from Dustin Hoffman

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By Carina Murphy

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Geena Davis has opened up about being hit on by Jack Nicholson - and how she avoided his advances.

The Thelma and Louise star, 66, explained how the advice of another famous friend helped her politely turn Nicholson down in a recent interview with the New Yorker.

Chatting to the magazine, Davis recalled how she was at a dinner with casting directors when the One Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest actor approached her.

"My modeling agent took me and a couple of other actor-slash-models to Hollywood to meet casting directors. He happened to know Jack Nicholson, and every single night Jack Nicholson had dinner with us," she explained.

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Geena Davis at the 2022 Emmy Awards. Credit: Sipa US / Alamy

David went on to say that one day a note arrived under her door asking her to call Nicholson and giving her his number. When she rang, the Hollywood star allegedly asked her bluntly: "When is it gonna happen?"

Flustered, Davis was uncertain what to say. However, thankfully, she remembered the advice given to her by her friend and fellow A-Lister Dustin Hoffman.

Davis recalled what  Hoffman had said to say if a co-star ever fancied her: "Say, 'Well, you’re very attractive. I would love to, but it would ruin the sexual tension between us.'"

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Jack Nicholson in 2010. Credit: Allstar Picture Library Ltd / Alamy

When Nicholson allegedly propositioned her, Davis remembered: "It immediately came into my head what to say: 'Uh, Jack, I would love to. You’re very attractive. But I have a feeling we're going to work together at some point in the future, and I would hate to have ruined the sexual tension between us.'"

"He was, like, 'Oh, man, where'd you get that?' So it worked," the Beetlejuice star added.

Meanwhile, this isn't the first time the star has had to rebuff the unwanted attention of an A-Lister.

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Dustin Hoffman in 2011. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy

In her new memoir, Dying of Politeness, Davis claimed that Bill Murray once allegedly greeted her in a hotel suite with a massage device which he instead he use on her - no matter how much she refused.

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