Reese Witherspoon offers up a blind item about an ‘awful, terrible’ rom-com
Entertainment Weekly’s cover this is week is “Beyond Beautiful”: a conversation with Kerry Washington, Elizabeth Banks, Reese Witherspoon and Eva Longoria about diversity, feminism, #AskHerMore, and being women in Hollywood. You can see EW’s cover preview here. I can tell you already that Kerry is the one really bringing it to this roundtable discussion, whereas Eva Longoria is kind of meh. But in the midst of a high-minded conversation about important subjects, Reese offered up an interesting blind item. I’m not sure if she meant to frame it as a blind item. I think she was just offering a story of her “breaking point” when she realized that she needed to produce more female-centric films. Here’s the blind item:
“About four years ago I got sent an awful, terrible script. And this male star was starring in it, and there was a girlfriend part. And I thought, “You’ve got to be kidding me. No, I’m not interested.” They said, “Well this actress is chasing it, that actress is chasing it: three Oscar winners and two huge box office leading ladies.” And I thought, “Oh, that’s where we’re at? You’re fighting to be the girlfriend in a dumb comedy? For what?” And by the way, two Oscar winners did it.”
What was the movie and who were the two Oscar winners? That’s the blind item. I would really love to know. It’s not Jennifer Lawrence, just because her CV is very light on rom-coms. My first thought was Natalie Portman and No Strings Attached, which is an awful film, but Ashton Kutcher is not an Oscar winner. One of Gwyneth Paltrow’s films perhaps? It could be Thanks For Sharing or Mortdecai, although Mark Ruffalo and Johnny Depp aren’t Oscar winners either. Charlize Theron in A Million Ways To Die in the West? No other Oscar winners in that either. One of those Garry Marshall films maybe? I’m really hitting a wall here, I’d love to hear your theories.
Anyway, I don’t hate Reese for talking openly about the crappy scripts she gets offered. But there is something like High Horse Syndrome (something I just made up) going on here, because Reese has made some absolutely awful/stupid movies too. Hot Pursuit? This Means War?
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