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Reese Witherspoon

👤 Speaker
342 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

So it's somewhere underneath. I was already like, I have to leave this business a better place than the way I found it. Because I don't want the next young Reese to have to go through what I went through. I want her to feel safe. Just because she wants to be an actress doesn't mean she deserves to be treated poorly, talked down to, sublimated, paid less.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

So it's somewhere underneath. I was already like, I have to leave this business a better place than the way I found it. Because I don't want the next young Reese to have to go through what I went through. I want her to feel safe. Just because she wants to be an actress doesn't mean she deserves to be treated poorly, talked down to, sublimated, paid less.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

So it's somewhere underneath. I was already like, I have to leave this business a better place than the way I found it. Because I don't want the next young Reese to have to go through what I went through. I want her to feel safe. Just because she wants to be an actress doesn't mean she deserves to be treated poorly, talked down to, sublimated, paid less.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

Um, and, and told that she doesn't matter and to shut up, shut up and be quiet was a lot of what we were told during 2017. When times have started, I actually started sitting in circles with women who had done what I frequently were the only woman on set, especially for a lot of us who came up in the nineties. I was the only girl on set a lot of the time and a little girl too.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

Um, and, and told that she doesn't matter and to shut up, shut up and be quiet was a lot of what we were told during 2017. When times have started, I actually started sitting in circles with women who had done what I frequently were the only woman on set, especially for a lot of us who came up in the nineties. I was the only girl on set a lot of the time and a little girl too.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

Um, and, and told that she doesn't matter and to shut up, shut up and be quiet was a lot of what we were told during 2017. When times have started, I actually started sitting in circles with women who had done what I frequently were the only woman on set, especially for a lot of us who came up in the nineties. I was the only girl on set a lot of the time and a little girl too.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

I'd have a caregiver, you know, rehearsals and things would happen. And I got to sit with other women, had similar experiences. And it was such a healing moment for me to know that like all of them had felt that way. All of them had been treated that way. And collectively we weren't going to do it anymore. We were going to stand up for people and we were going to lock arms with each other.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

I'd have a caregiver, you know, rehearsals and things would happen. And I got to sit with other women, had similar experiences. And it was such a healing moment for me to know that like all of them had felt that way. All of them had been treated that way. And collectively we weren't going to do it anymore. We were going to stand up for people and we were going to lock arms with each other.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

I'd have a caregiver, you know, rehearsals and things would happen. And I got to sit with other women, had similar experiences. And it was such a healing moment for me to know that like all of them had felt that way. All of them had been treated that way. And collectively we weren't going to do it anymore. We were going to stand up for people and we were going to lock arms with each other.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

And we were going to protect women in our industry and other industries. And that was a really meaningful time for me, 2017, when we all went to the Golden Globes and were black. Yeah. Because we know... The majority of the money that's made off of the red carpet photos is off of the women and their dresses and their clothes. It was a sign of solidarity. It was a sign of understanding.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

And we were going to protect women in our industry and other industries. And that was a really meaningful time for me, 2017, when we all went to the Golden Globes and were black. Yeah. Because we know... The majority of the money that's made off of the red carpet photos is off of the women and their dresses and their clothes. It was a sign of solidarity. It was a sign of understanding.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

And we were going to protect women in our industry and other industries. And that was a really meaningful time for me, 2017, when we all went to the Golden Globes and were black. Yeah. Because we know... The majority of the money that's made off of the red carpet photos is off of the women and their dresses and their clothes. It was a sign of solidarity. It was a sign of understanding.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

And it was also just the sign that we were all talking to each other.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

And it was also just the sign that we were all talking to each other.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

And it was also just the sign that we were all talking to each other.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

There's nowhere to hide anymore. And I've had girls call me and say, I need to talk to you about something that happened over here on this side. I need you to call this person, that person. And we do it. And I want to say, I do want to say something. There were incredible male allies. They didn't come forward. They didn't make it about them. They didn't put a badge on themselves.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

There's nowhere to hide anymore. And I've had girls call me and say, I need to talk to you about something that happened over here on this side. I need you to call this person, that person. And we do it. And I want to say, I do want to say something. There were incredible male allies. They didn't come forward. They didn't make it about them. They didn't put a badge on themselves.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

There's nowhere to hide anymore. And I've had girls call me and say, I need to talk to you about something that happened over here on this side. I need you to call this person, that person. And we do it. And I want to say, I do want to say something. There were incredible male allies. They didn't come forward. They didn't make it about them. They didn't put a badge on themselves.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

They just did really, really impactful things behind the scenes. And I will be forever grateful.

We Can Do Hard Things
Reese Witherspoon on Friendship: What, Like It’s Hard? (Best Of)

They just did really, really impactful things behind the scenes. And I will be forever grateful.