14 DAY TRIAL // Reese Witherspoon is a very busy woman these days: not only does she have 3 movies lined up for this year and another one for 2015, but she also produced one of the most anticipated releases of the fall, “Gone Girl,” with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike as leads. So brace yourselves for an onslaught of interviews to promote all this.
Kicking things off on a very high note, Reese covers the latest edition of Vogue magazine, October 2014, which also includes a lengthy interview on her production work, her career as an actress, and her gorgeous family.
The interview doesn’t mention a single word about her 2013 arrest, when she tried to pull the “don’t you know who I am card?” to help her husband out of getting a DUI. Instead, they both ended in cuffs.
Learning fascinating trivia about a Hollywood A-lister
With the interview comes a video (embedded below) in which Reese is taking questions from a Vogue reporter just dropping by her house unannounced. She answers exactly 73 questions, from trivial stuff like her most and least favorite foods, to “heavier” stuff like her biggest joy in life, her beliefs, and her dreams and aspirations.
Oh and we also find out that she has a trampoline in her backyard and that she can execute a mean backflip on it.
The Q&A claims to be unrehearsed, a spur-of-the-moment kind of chat, but you should probably not let yourself be deceived by appearances: there is no way an A-lister, even someone as seemingly reliable as Reeese, would do this without proper preparations. In this day and age, when image is everything, no one can risk being taken by surprise.
Even so, it’s fun to see Reese more or less in her element, and we assume all that trivia must come as manna to fans who have not heard anything about her in quite some time.
Reese is branching out
Speaking of which, in the print interview, Witherspoon explains why she took some time off from starring in movies to get her own production company off the ground.
“It’s not that the roles dried up. They just weren’t as dynamic or as interesting as anything I felt I could do,” she says. “When people underestimate me, it’s actually a comfortable place for me. ‘Oh, that’s what you think I am; well, no, I’m not.’ I’m a complex human being. I have many different shades.”
The pint-sized actress confesses that she was actually sought for the role of Amy in “Gone Girl” but that she passed when she found out producers wanted someone “cool and unapproachable,” which turned out to be Rosamund. She dropped out of the part, but she got to produce the film, and she takes great pride in her accomplishment.
For the rest of Reese’s Vogue interview, keep an eye out for the print issue on newsstands.