Everyone, including Hollywood stars, must ultimately deal with jury duty, but American actress Reese Witherspoon had a particularly fascinating story to share about it.
On Friday night’s broadcast of “The Graham Norton Show,” Witherspoon talked about how, a few years after the release of her film “Legally Blonde,” she was required to serve on the jury for a two-week dog bite trial in Beverly Hills.
Witherspoon remembered how the jury uniformly pointed to her when it came time to choose a foreman during deliberation.
She pointed to herself and yelled, “Me! Me!” Ariana Grande, another visitor, appeared unsurprised and responded, “Well, yeah.”
“I thought, ‘Why did you choose me?'” Witherspoon answered. “And they said, ‘You attended law school.'”
Naturally, this alludes to her role as Elle Woods in the 2001 movie “Legally Blonde,” when she enrols at Harvard Law School to be near the man she loves (“What, like it’s hard?”).
Witherspoon continued by stating that she had told her fellow jurors that she “definitely did not go to law school” and that she had not completed college, adding, “Like, I played a lawyer in a movie once!”
She also discussed the case and how some of the jury wanted to convict the defendant because they didn’t like the way she looked, and how important it is to serve on a jury because “some bad stuff goes down in there” because “people do not know much about the law.”
Witherspoon clarified that, in the end, it came down to someone breaching the fundamental rule that one should never put one’s hand in a dogfight when her fellow guest Will Ferrell enquired about the outcome. “What did your mother always say about not getting involved in a dogfight?” Witherspoon stated.
Then Ferrell made a joke: “I always tell my children, ‘Put your hands in dogfights!’ I feel awful!”
Witherspoon and Ferrell will soon collaborate on the upcoming wedding comedy “You’re Cordially Invited,” which will be available on Amazon Prime on January 30.
