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Reese Witherspoon: Roles
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Reese Witherspoon took home her first Actor® last year for Outstanding Female in a Leading Role for her portrayal of June Carter in Walk the Line. This year marks her first as a SAG Awards presenter. Witherspoon produced and appears in the modern fable Penelope, due out in April, and is currently filming Rendition.
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Reese Witherspoon is known for choosing her roles carefully. In a business that often focuses on (high) salaries, this actor opts for artistic value, and she’s earned audience and critical respect for her trouble.
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In 2004, Witherspoon starred in Vanity Fair, adapted from the 19th-century classic novel Vanity Fair and directed by Mira Nair. Witherspoon's character – Becky Sharp – is a woman whose impoverished childhood turns her into an ambitious person with a ruthless determination to find fortune and establish herself a position in society. Witherspoon was pregnant during the filmmaking and ... was carefully costumed to conceal her pregnancy.[47] This pregnancy was not a hindrance to her work, as Witherspoon believed the gestation had in fact helped her portrayal of Sharp’s character: "I love the luminosity that pregnancy brings, I love the fleshiness, I love the ample bosom — it gave me much more to play with", she said.[48][49] The film and Witherspoon's portrayal of Sharp received good reviews, as The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Nair's cast is splendid. Witherspoon does justice to the juicy role by giving the part more buoyancy than naughtiness."[50] At the same time, The Charlotte Observer called her work "an excellent performance that's soft around the edges" and the Los Angeles Times concluded that Becky is "a part Reese Witherspoon was born to play".[51][52]
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While still in high school, Witherspoon completed two more feature films, Jack the Bear (1993), starring Danny De Vito, and Disney's A Far Off Place (1993), which required the actress to spend several months living in the Kalahari Desert. Following a supporting role in the 1993 CBS miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove and a lead in the critically disembowelled S.F.W., Witherspoon temporarily set aside her career to study English literature at Stanford University. She then returned to film as the abused girlfriend of a psychotic Mark Wahlberg in the thriller Fear (1996). In the same year, she had to deal with yet another crazed male in Freeway, a satirical version of Little Red Riding Hood in which Witherspoon co-starred with Kiefer Sutherland, who took on the role of the aforementioned crazed male.
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Oscar winner REESE WITHERSPOON has branded BRITNEY SPEARS, LINDSAY LOHAN and PARIS HILTON bad role models for women. The Walk The Line actress is angry the "sad and very strange" behaviour of the hellraising trio undoes the work of women from previous generations who fought against a male-dominated society. She says, "We don't need to keep reading about female celebrities who are out there posing all the time and craving attention and exploiting the sex symbol stereotype. "My mother and grandmother fought incredibly hard against a male establishment to become high achievers in their lives, and I think women should be able to be sexy and smart and successful - without being silly and aimless."
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In 2000, Witherspoon received a supporting role in American Psycho. In addition, she made a cameo appearance as "Angel Holly" in Little Nicky. Witherspoon had small parts as Jill Green, Rachel Green's sister, in season six of "Friends", as well as Debbie Grunds in two episodes of King of the Hill.
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