Overview
- McDonald recalled that he and Geena Davis were engaged for about five weeks in the mid-1980s and that Davis fell in love with co-star Jeff Goldblum while filming Transylvania 6-5000.
- He said Ed Begley Jr. was the one who told him the engagement was off while McDonald was performing the role of Laertes in Hamlet, and he described the experience as leaving him “broken.”
- The actors later worked together in Ridley Scott’s Thelma & Louise in 1991, an experience McDonald has previously called “great” and “really cathartic.”
- McDonald went on to marry actress Lupe Gidley in 1992 and they have four children, while Davis married Goldblum in 1987 and the couple divorced in 1990.
- Entertainment outlets reported McDonald’s remarks as a career‑retrospective anecdote that restates long‑reported facts rather than revealing new information.