Reese Witherspoon #VanityFair
Here’s to the fabulous Reese Witherspoon and interesting reading to distract you from the news. You’re welcome !
From the latest Vanity Fair : In recent years, Reese Witherspoon has turned her literary obsession into an empire. Her latest brilliant book adaptation: Little Fires Everywhere debuts March 15 on Hulu.
PS Love this Podcast with Reese , from Second Life.
On not building her career on sexuality: “I always had a thing about exploiting sexuality. When I came up in the business, there were all these men’s magazines we were told to cater to. I was never in Maxim. I was never picked as a GQ girl, and I’m okay with that because that’s not how I wanted to be viewed. That’s not how I see myself.
“I always say, ‘Funny doesn’t sag.’ I always just wanted to be funny, you know? And you can’t be rendered obsolete if you just keep being funny. Guess what gets rendered obsolete? Your boobs go south, your face goes south, your ass goes south, but you can always be funny. And those are my idols, my heroes—Goldie, Holly Hunter, Diane Keaton, Nancy Meyers—smart and funny.”
On being a child actor: “Bad things happened to me. I was assaulted, harassed. It wasn’t isolated.
“I recently had a journalist ask me about it. She said, Well, why didn’t you speak up sooner? And I thought, that’s so interesting to talk to someone who experienced those things and then judge them for the way they decide to speak about them. You tell your story in your own time when you’re ready. But the shame that she tried to put on me was unreal, and then she wrote about how selfish I was for not bringing it up sooner”.
“There wasn’t a public reckoning 25 years ago when this stuff happened to me. There wasn’t a forum to speak about it either. Social media has created a new way for people to express themselves that I didn’t have. That’s the great strength in power and numbers. I think we have a lot of judgment and that’s unfortunate because we’re all tenderfooted in these new times. We’re trying to find our identity. That’s what I really like about The Morning Show.”
On her Hollywood sister: “You know, you meet people, you’re friends with people, but I say about a few women in my life, they are my sister. I don’t have a sister and I found my sister in Laura [Dern]. No one makes me laugh like Laura. She’s magical.”
On movies : “I can remember BEING IN PICTURES in which I was the ONLY WOMAN on the set and there would be 150 MEN. “Maybe there would be a couple of women in wardrobe. I remember when I was a kid I would find them and cling to them.””
