
Reese Witherspoon is getting ready to take the big screen by storm in the movie, How Do You Know. She is looking fresh on this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly. In the interview with the magazine she talks about her new movie, her divorce and not dwelling on things. Here are the highlights:
As she promotes her latest movie, How Do You Know, Witherspoon explains her brief absence from our screens: ‘I just didn’t read anything I liked,’ she says.
On how she feels about our metal overlords: ‘There are a lot of really, really, really big movies about robots and things… and there’s not a part for a 34-year-old woman in a robot movie.’
On whether she Googles herself: ‘Oh, only in very, very dark moments, moments of pure self-loathing, do I type my name into Google. [Laughs] And I know what I’m in for. You never read anything positive; you always go straight to where you know they’re going to say something nasty about you.’
On maintaining a positive attitude throughout her divorce: ‘It definitely sometimes feels like a suit that I wish I could zip off,’ she said. ‘But I don’t feel bad about any of the things I’ve gone through, whether it’s divorce or breakups or anything like that, because that’s all part of the life journey, and I have those experiences just like anyone else. And I think it deepens what you tap into creatively.’
On not dwelling on things: ‘My favorite quote is from Martha Stewart: ‘I have a short memory for painful things.’ And I do. I have one of those incredible memories where I just erase painful things. Maybe that’s really unhealthy, and I probably need to see a therapist. But I don’t dwell. You just keep going forward. Also, I have kids. What are you going to do? Are you going to teach them to be one of those people who keep looking in the rear view mirror, or are you going to teach them to be one of those people who go, ‘Tomorrow’s another day?”
On all the wedding rumors: ‘My mom always texts me, like, ‘Are you getting married?’ I’m like, ‘Mom, come on. You would know if I was getting married.”
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