Everyone starts somewhere – and for Reese Witherspoon it was an advertisement in her local paper. The multi-hyphenate shared an…
The multi-hyphenate shared an Instagram video on Wednesday, reminiscing about how she was cast and her experiences making her first feature film at 14, 1991’s Witherspoon stars as Dani Trant, a young tomboy, coming of age in Louisiana in the summer of 1957.
The star goes on to explain that after doing a few commercials, she saw an ad in her local paper looking for a 14-year-old Southern girl to appear in a movie. She auditioned but didn’t hear anything for a month. “I came home from softball practice and my mom said, ‘Reese, I need to talk to you, they’re calling and asking if you’ll go to Los Angeles for a screen test.
Of course, Witherspoon did get the job, spending the entire summer before her freshman year of high school making the movie. “I learned everything I needed to know about being a film actor, how to hit marks, how to perform for a camera, how to get emotional,” she says.
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