“Coachella!” exclaims Geena Davis, cradling her head on the table in front of her. When she straightens up, her face is flush with a wide-eyed glow: “Oh my God!”

The veteran actress is still reeling from the electric response to her cameo appearance a few weeks earlier during headliner Sabrina Carpenter’s second weekend set at the popular music festival.

The young audience roared when they spotted Davis on mammoth screens sitting in a drive-in, playing an older version of Carpenter in a skit that paid homage to her 1991 female outlaw saga Thelma & Louise.

“The reaction really blew my mind,” Davis says. “I didn’t expect to suddenly be trending!”

Her smile widens as she segues into raving about her latest project, Netflix’s The Boroughs, about a group of residents of an upscale retirement community who band together when a mysterious entity starts killing their neighbours.

The series features Davis as Renee, a volunteer at the community centre who is itching for combat. “I wanna kick some a**, stack some bodies,” she says at one point. “The grey rebellion rises.”