Reese Witherspoon says she nonetheless thinks a few main fake pas she as soon as dedicated ― despite the fact that there have been no merciless intentions behind it.
The Oscar winner is selling her new comedy “You’re Cordially Invited,” and apropos of its title, she just lately advised her co-star Will Ferrell {that a} “very serious” actor as soon as invited Witherspoon to current her with an award at a sublime gala — the place issues took a fairly dangerous flip.
“It literally haunts me,” Witherspoon advised Ferrell in a phase for Individuals journal, posted Thursday.
“So this friend of mine, who I didn’t really know that well but she was a very serious, proper actress, she asked me to give her an award,” she continued. “But I had never been to this award ceremony, so I thought it was like a roast. So I got up and I roasted her.”
“But that was not the tone?” mentioned Ferrell. “Oh, boy.”
The “Big Little Lies” star painted a slightly embarrassing image, noting that the British ceremony was “elegant” and “classy.” Witherspoon recalled addressing the actor from the stage: “Remember the time we got laser hair removal?”
“I’m still embarrassed about it,” she advised Ferrell. “We’re not friends anymore.”
“I’m not even kidding — we’re not friends anymore,” Witherspoon continued with fun. “I think she doesn’t like me anymore. I thought it was so funny and it was just ― I had the wrong audience. It was pretty bad. Yeah. Not even kidding, she doesn’t talk to me anymore.”
Witherspoon didn’t identify the actor in query, however some information shops and social media sleuths have prompt it was none aside from “Titanic” star Kate Winslet ― based mostly on a Witherspoon fan web page that options an alleged transcript of her presenting Winslet with an Artist of the 12 months award on the 2007 BAFTAs.
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The unverified transcript, printed on the fan web page in 2007, exhibits Witherspoon joking that her private tales with Winslet are “too bawdy or tawdry or drunken” to share.
It additionally claims Witherspoon alluded to “that really funny thing that happened when they were both in their underwear,” and that she briefly touched on “the time they contemplated laser hair removal.”
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HuffPost reached out to representatives for Witherspoon and Winslet for remark, however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
In 2021, Witherspoon tweeted a glowing overview of “Mare of Easttown” — the HBO sequence starring Winslet — and mentioned the “excellent” present featured “incredibly complex performances.”
She concluded on the time: “Bravo to everyone involved!”
