Reese Witherspoon

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q44063: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Cruel Intentions (1999); Election (1999); Legally Blonde (2001); Sweet Home Alabama (2002); Walk the Line (2005); Rendition (2007); Inherent Vice (2014); Big Little Lies (2017); A Wrinkle in Time; Big Little Lies (TV); Home Again; Hot Pursuit; Little Fires Everywhere (TV); Mud; The Morning Show (TV); Wild; Wildflower. Count them as producer (3 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Big Little Lies (2017): 1 line, within their own work

  1. industry (industry) · them, directly: Big Little Lies ⇒ Reese Witherspoon (the host's read). Kidman and Witherspoon doing prestige TV turned the tide for movie stars on television and started the book-adaptation wave.
    “It's also, it starts the whole Reese Witherspoon thing, the book adaptation thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:53:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Leslie Dixon: 1 line

  1. unmapped (brought the manuscript to) · them, directly: Leslie Dixon ⇒ Reese Witherspoon (the host's read). Dixon read the manuscript and delivered it to Witherspoon.
    “reads the manuscript, takes it right to the top of Sunshine Mountain and delivers it to Reese Witherspoon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:35:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

My Cousin Vinny (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Legally Blonde (2001), which they acted in: My Cousin Vinny ⇒ Legally Blonde (the host's read). Legally Blonde comes after Vinny and plays with the genre's moments.
    “it comes after my cousin Vinny”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 1:34:07 · Amanda Dobbins (0.75 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007): 2 lines

  1. unmapped (parody target) · through Walk the Line (2005), which they acted in: Walk the Line ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Amanda argues effective parody must work from something that works, and watched the two back to back; the buzz-saw brother incident mirrors Walk Hard's setup.
    “for something, to be an effective parody, it has to be working from something that actually works.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:04:20 · Amanda Dobbins (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (parody of) · through Walk the Line (2005), which they acted in: Walk the Line ⇒ Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (the host's read). Walk Hard is a beat-for-beat demolition of Walk the Line (and Ray), pairing contempt with affection.
    “it is such a perfect note for note, beat for beat, cliche for cliche, demolition of this kind of movie, with just the right amount of contempt and affection”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:28:10 · Adam Nayman (0.90 sure it was them)

Easy A (2010): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Election (1999), which they acted in: Election ⇒ Easy A (the host's read). Olive's unbothered, stronger-than-the-bully stance continues the Tracy Flick character through Book Smart's Beanie Feldstein.
    “the Tracy Flick character that we have seen just grow and grow all the way up to like the most recently book smart with Beanie Felsian's character.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Easy A’ With Juliet Litman, Amanda Dobbins, and Shea Serrano · 0:56:33 · Juliet Litman (0.50 sure it was them)

Gone Girl (2014): 1 line

  1. lineage (originated the project) · them, directly: Reese Witherspoon ⇒ Gone Girl (the host's read). Witherspoon took the book and had the idea of bringing Fincher on board.
    “takes this book, has the smart idea, bring Fincher on board.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:20:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Reese Witherspoon: 1 line, within their own work

  1. industry (industry) · through Big Little Lies (2017), which they acted in: Big Little Lies ⇒ Reese Witherspoon (the host's read). Kidman and Witherspoon doing prestige TV turned the tide for movie stars on television and started the book-adaptation wave.
    “It's also, it starts the whole Reese Witherspoon thing, the book adaptation thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:53:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

Sharp Objects (TV): 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to) · through Big Little Lies (TV), which they acted in: Big Little Lies (TV) ⇒ Sharp Objects (TV) (the host's read). After Big Little Lies, projects like Sharp Objects became miniseries rather than movies.
    “And it kind of changes everything where then that type of project becomes, you do it as a miniseries.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:45:09 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Producing (3) everyone in producing

Acting (20) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Big Little Lies → Reese Witherspoon. Kidman and Witherspoon doing prestige TV turned the tide for movie stars on television and started the book-adaptation wave.
    “It's also, it starts the whole Reese Witherspoon thing, the book adaptation thing.”
    The Big Picture · The Nicole Kidman Hall of Fame, and ‘Babygirl’ · 1:53:34 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (originated the project): Reese Witherspoon → Gone Girl. Witherspoon took the book and had the idea of bringing Fincher on board.
    “takes this book, has the smart idea, bring Fincher on board.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:20:39 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

people (1)

  1. people (casting): Reese Witherspoon → Gone Girl. Fincher also passed on Witherspoon for Gone Girl, as he had for Fight Club.
    “And then, of course, he fucks her out of gone girl as well.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:42:41 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (brought the manuscript to): Leslie Dixon → Reese Witherspoon. Dixon read the manuscript and delivered it to Witherspoon.
    “reads the manuscript, takes it right to the top of Sunshine Mountain and delivers it to Reese Witherspoon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:35:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if casting): Reese Witherspoon → Gone Girl. Fincher told Witherspoon at once that she would not star; the speakers debate whether she would have worked as Amy.
    “Fincher immediately says, by the way, you're not starting in this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:20:42 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Reese Witherspoon: Running bit: Witherspoon's invented Quibi nature show 'Fierce Queens' with commentary like 'you go, girl boss cheetah'.
    “had a Quibby show that I love called Fierce Queens.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman (Ad-Free) · 0:16:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)