Reese Witherspoon
speaker
157 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 10 May
Reese Witherspoon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You don't belong here. Everyone has felt that need to prove yourself, to value yourself. I still think about that movie and how it kind of stands alone in a genre. Yes, it does. And it's odd. It's really odd, right? That there haven't been more films about a woman with ambition accomplishing something. Well, then I look at Tracy Flick, which is the other side of that, right? Exactly, yes.
And she's reviled for being ambitious, right? One is perceived as stupid and one is perceived as a shrew or overly ambitious. But it's interesting. I mean, there's a whole spectrum of female behavior that we haven't seen on film, really, because women aren't telling the stories. I don't know. I really, I love Elle Woods for what she brings to people. Can I tell you one funny story?
So I got, so I was... I got divorced. I was about 31 or 32. And I was in that weird state after my divorce where I was like floating, you know, like, who am I? Where am I?
I had two little kids and I was like, oh, what am I doing? And I got called for jury duty.
I go to jury duty. I'm thinking, they're not going to pick me. Like, why would they pick me? Goes to the first day and they ask me all these questions. They're like, no, juror number 11, sit back down. You need to stay. I'm like, stay?
okay.
And then I'm like, okay. And then I'm like on the phone crying to my girlfriend and they're like, juror number 11, you've been selected for the jury. Oh my God. It was a five day trial. No, I was there every day from eight o'clock to three o'clock. No, like a little break at lunch with all my fellow jurors.
And we went on the last day into deliberations to decide whether or not this woman was guilty of this crime. And They said, well, we have to pick a foreman for the jury. And literally all of them turned and pointed at me and said, you're going to be the foreman. And I said, me? Why am I going to be the foreman? They said, because you're a lawyer.
No. No. I knew exactly where this was going. Nope. Elle Woods is in the room. Elle Woods is on the jury. My God. But let me tell you something. It made me think.
If you could call for jury duty, you better show up. Because if any one of us is on trial, you want nice, thoughtful people in those juries? Yes, that's right. Because people did not understand the law. And I only knew enough about the law for being Elle Woods that I was like, no, no, no. You don't get to say guilty or innocent. You have to say if the lawyer proved it or not.
You don't get to say, because one of them goes, she looks guilty. No. I was like, that's not how this works.
Like it's hard? Jury duty? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Guys, I'm not even kidding how many letters I get from girls who say I went to law school because of you. Wow. In other countries. I went to this thing in Washington, D.C. and it was 200 female judges from around the world. And we were all speaking in front of them. It was so moving and emotional that I gave a speech and they were clapping so much.
And these girls... came over and they were from China, these 10 girls. And he said, we went to law school because of you. That's amazing. The power of media and film. That's right. Every time I get tired, I think when people say, oh, you're so busy, you're so busy. We're making up for thousands of lost stories. That's right. Years and years of our stories not being told. So good.
When I look at my friend Ava DuVernay or Mindy Kaling or Tracee Ellis Ross or Kerry Washington, and we are working our tails off just to get these stories on film because we're making it for lost time and lost stories. And I think it's going to be amazing to see what the next generation feels inspired because there's been a lot of paths cut just in this past 10 years.
It's okay. I haven't been bored in a long time. But one thing that has just given me pure joy and energy is I paint with my mom on Tuesday mornings. She has this little group of, they're 80, between 75 and 80 years old, there's five of them. And we do watercolors. And for three hours, no one looks at their phone. They literally just eat cookies, have coffee and do watercolors. And it's a delight.
I mean, she's the love of my life. That's what I did while that was like all about her mother being the love of her life. And my mother is just the greatest love.
I love you guys. Thank you for saying that. And I love you guys so much. Honestly, every time I see you, I just... just have joy bursting out of my face. Just allow me to hug you and tell you, thank you. Thank you for making me feel brave and seeing.
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