Geena Davis recalls inappropriate audition she had with director

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Geena Davis is opening up about an inappropriate audition she went on early in her career.

While doing press for her upcoming documentary, "This Changes Everything," the 63-year-old actress recalled a time when a male director made her sit on his lap while acting out a love scene.

“I was auditioning for a part where, in one scene, my character was going to be sitting on the lap of the male character,” Davis told USA Today.

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“The director said, ‘Just act the scene out with me,’ and made me sit on his lap. It was kind of a sexy scene. I didn’t want to do it, and I was very uncomfortable, but I didn’t know you could say no," she added.

"So hopefully in the time of #MeToo and Time’s Up, women aren’t going to have to suffer through that. It’s pretty standard that you don’t meet alone with a man in a private room or hotel suite anymore, but plenty of that stuff goes on and has gone on for a long time.”

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Davis' new documentary addresses how women are under- and misrepresented in entertainment. She's been a women's rights activist for years.

In 2004, Davis founded the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, which is a "non-profit research organization that researches gender representation in media and advocates for equal representation of women."