Samuel L. Jackson has long said his favorite movie he’s starred in is the 1996 action-thriller The Long Kiss Goodnight. Turns out his co-star Geena Davis feels likewise.

“It’s my favorite too,” Davis tells Deadline. “I’m supposed to say Thelma & Louise because that movie is irreplaceable, but I have to say, I had so much fun with Sam and we’ve always wished that we could do a sequel.”

The Long Kiss Goodnight was directed by Renny Harlin (Davis’s then-husband) and written by Shane Black. She plays a mild-mannered schoolteacher with amnesia who gradually realizes she used to be a government assassin. Jackson, in the role of small-time private eye Mitch Henessey, helps her unravel her past.

“In fact, people might not know, but we changed the ending [of the movie] so that Sam’s character was alive,” Davis told us. “In the original script, he dies and we were like, ‘No, no, no, no, no. We want to be able to do a sequel if it happens.’ But it probably still could. We’re not too old!”

Deadline spoke with the Oscar-winner at the opening night of the Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas, which she has led since its inception 12 years ago. Davis heads from Bentonville to the set of her next film, The Kellys, which as Deadline reported exclusively co-stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liam Hemsworth, Kelsey Asbille, and Abby Elliott.

“I was a little worried I was going to have to miss the festival to shoot the movie, but I’m here so I’m very happy about that,” Davis said of The Kellys, which is being directed by Brad Peyton from a script by Peyton and Tze Chun. “My friends were asking, ‘What is it about?’ I said, ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger’s in it! Okay. You get the idea.’ It’s a full-on action movie and very funny too and really fun.”

Davis just returned to the U.S. from the Cannes Film Festival, where she and Susan Sarandon graced the festival’s official poster in their characters of Thelma & Louise.

“Susan and I had no idea until they announced it,” Davis revealed. “And then we were like, ‘What?’ And then of course when I was there, there were posters 30 feet high. It was amazing.”

Davis took part in the festival awards ceremony, presenting the Best Actor prize (shared by Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne of the World War I drama Coward). It wasn’t her only activity in Cannes. “I got to be the host of the AmFar Gala, which was really fun. And it’s always fun to go to something like that and have an excuse to wear fabulous dresses.”

For Bentonville’s opening night, she wore something more casual – a lacey top over wide-legged jeans. The festival kicked off with a screening of Family Movie, a horror-comedy directed by Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick and starring the couple and their kids, Sosie Bacon and Travis Bacon. The Bacon-Sedgwick clan were on hand for the event.

The 12th edition of the Bentonville Film Festival wraps on Sunday. “It’s everything I could want,” Davis said of the festival which she founded in 2015 with Trevor Drinkwater, CEO of Inclusion Companies. “It’s really been incredible and it just grows and grows every year. I heard we’re the fifth fastest growing festival in North America. So, it means a lot.”

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