Reese Witherspoon recently shared an embarrassing confession on The Graham Norton Show: Her fictional law degree earned in Legally Blonde landed her a job in real life.
Here's the story: A few years ago, Reese was called for jury duty in Beverly Hills, and she found herself stuck on a two-week dog bite case.
Jurors voted unanimously for Reese as jury foreman (i.e. the one person in the room who actually has to act like they know what they're doing) because they thought she went to law school.
Makes "jury of your peers" seem like an insult, doesn't it?
Yes, because she played lawyer Elle Woods - the pink-suit-wearing, Chihuahua-carrying icon of Legally Blonde - she was running the show in a Beverly Hills courtroom.
Sigh.
"I was like, ‘Y'all this is really upsetting. I definitely did not go to law school, I didn't finish college,'" Reese said. "I played a lawyer in a movie once, but they fully made me the foreman and I started realizing people don't know much about the law."
Thank goodness not every hire in America is a democratic process based on movie roles … otherwise Jason Momoa's failure to rescue anyone stranded in the middle of the Pacific Ocean would be a real let-down.
Folks, please please please understand that Hollywood isn't real life.
Please.
Please.
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