Geena Davis Had a ‘Blast’ Filming a “Thelma and Louise”-Esque Car Scene for “The Boroughs ”(Exclusive)
Geena Davis Had a ‘Blast’ Filming a “Thelma and Louise”-Esque Car Scene for “The Boroughs ”(Exclusive)
Meredith WilshereWed, May 27, 2026 at 5:24 PM UTC
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Geena Davis in 'The Boroughs'
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Boroughs.
Geena Davis performs a daring car stunt in Netflix's The Boroughs reminiscent of her iconic Thelma & Louise scene
The Boroughs, produced by Stranger Things creators, follows retirees battling an unseen threat in their mysterious community
Davis highlights her character’s deep friendship with Denis O’Hare’s Wally as a key emotional element of the show
Geena Davis is going over the edge of a cliff in a car once again — but this time, things end very differently than they did in 1991's Thelma & Louise.
While speaking to PEOPLE about her new Netflix sci-fi series The Boroughs, Davis, 70, opened up about filming the show’s intense cliffside stunt sequence.
“I mean, that was so fun to shoot actually. There were stunt people helping us do it and jumping off the ground,” Davis shares.
In the scene, Davis’ character Renee narrowly avoids death by jumping out of a car that is headed off a cliff and straight into the desert. This time, it wasn’t her and Susan Sarandon behind the wheel, but rather an inexplicable enemy.
In the scene, her character Renee jumps out of the car and into the arms of Carlos Miranda’s character, Paz.
Carlos Miranda and Geena Davis
Credit: Netflix
“We really did that catch. Or Carlos did. It was a blast,” Davis shares.
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The Boroughs is a new sci-fi show produced by Stranger Thingsco-creators The Duffer Brothers.
Geena Davis in 'The Boroughs'
Credit: Netflix
In addition to Davis, the show stars Alfred Molina, Denis O’Hare, Clarke Peters, Alfre Woodard and Bill Pullman as retirees in a community called The Boroughs where everything is not as it seems, and their lives are threatened by an entity that they cannot see. The group of unlikely heroes team up to get to the bottom of what is hunting them at night.
Similar to Thelma & Louise, in the show Davis’ character has her own partner in crime, per se, Wally, played by O’Hare.
In the show, Wally and Renee have a great relationship, and during a key moment for Wally’s character, he takes her advice to heart. The moment, Davis shares, “proves that they are really true, deep friends.”
“Because there's a lot of goofy, superficial stuff that happens or just being funny or laughing at a funeral or whatever. But they really have bonded, I mean, for him to take that advice when he really had gone there, it speaks to their connection,” Davis shares.
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The Boroughs is now streaming on Netflix.
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