Reese Witherspoon made headlines this week by revealing in an interview {that a} very well-known, “serious, proper actress” stopped speaking to her after she unintentionally ruined their friendship by saying bawdy issues about her whereas introducing her at a “classy” British awards ceremony.
However Witherspoon didn’t title the actress within the interview with Folks, which in fact despatched film followers sleuthing by her profession to theorize on the id of the A-list thespian whom the “Legally Blonde” star so deeply offended. However earlier than sharing followers’ conclusion, right here is how Witherspoon set the actress hunt in movement:
“It literally haunts me,” Witherspoon stated in a joint interview with Will Ferrell to advertise their new romantic comedy, “You’re Cordially Invited,” in keeping with Folks. The Oscar winner then responded to a query she had posed to Ferrell, asking whether or not he ever regretted saying one thing when he delivered a speech.
Witherspoon started: “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. 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.”
Witherspoon revealed that the occasion was “British,” “elegant” and “classy” and that she acquired the tone fully improper whereas cracking jokes in her speech. “I was like, ‘Remember the time we got laser hair removal?’”
For this and different crass remarks, Witherspoon stated the unnamed actress stopped speaking to her. “We’re not friends anymore. I’m not even kidding — we’re not friends anymore” she stated with amusing. “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. Oh well.”
So, with these clues, web sleuths have come to consider that the actress, who supposedly not likes Witherspoon, is Kate Winslet, in keeping with the Day by day Mail and the gossip website JustJared.
That’s as a result of Witherspoon as soon as honored the “Titanic” star on stage on the BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards in November 2007. Winslet was receiving Artist of the Yr award from the Los Angeles department of the British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts (BAFTA) — somewhat over a yr earlier than she’d obtain the most effective actress Oscar for her efficiency within the 2008 movie, “The Reader.”
Ten months earlier than the BAFTA/LA ceremony, Witherspoon and Winslet gave the impression to be fairly pleasant after they greeted one another on the 2007 Golden Globe Awards. However in keeping with Witherspoon, that friendship ended when she gave her speech on the British awards occasion in November of that yr.
Apart from the quip about “laser hair removal,” what different apparently offending issues did Witherspoon say about Winslet? A transcript of the speech was posted on a Witherspoon fan website in 2007.
“I always wanted to be a European movie star, wear giant sunglasses, elaborate neck scarves, smoke hand-rolled cigarettes, and have savoir faire and gravitas,” Witherspoon stated, in keeping with the transcript.
“Think about my luck when Kate Winslet moved into my neighborhood, rang my door bell and stated, ‘Dahling, Sam is off shooting, and I believe our children are the same age,” Witherspoon continued in a British accent. “Could they possibly have a play date and oh, by the way, it’s virtually 9 o’clock and I’ve had nothing to do drink, do you’ve got any wine?’”
Witherspoon then advised the BAFTA viewers that she admired Winslet’s “fearlessness,” as throughout a scene within the 2001 movie “Iris,” when Winslet eliminated her garments and jumped, bare, right into a lake. “I thought, ‘Wow, I bet that lake is really cold.’ And then I thought, ‘Wow, There’s an actor without fear.’”
Witherspoon stated she couldn’t inform her most private tales about Winslet as a result of “they’re all too bawdy or tawdry or drunken to tell,” together with the “really funny thing that happened when they were both in their underwear,” in keeping with the fan website.
So, in keeping with followers, Witherspoon’s well-known British actress ex-friend is Winslet. Then once more, the 2 girls appeared to patch up their variations sufficient to seem collectively on the 88th Academy Awards in 2016 to collectively introduce two movies, “Bridge of Spies” and “Spotlight,” which had been nominated that yr for greatest image.
The Day by day Beast additionally reported that Witherspoon has offered awards to different actresses as properly, together with when she offered her “Big Little Lies” costar Nicole Kidman with the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. Throughout that presentation, she did an impression of Kidman’s Australian accent as Kidman watched from the group. Witherspoon additionally attended the BAFTAs in 2015 and 2023, the place she walked the carpet with British actresses Keira Knightley, Rosamund Pike and Felicity Jones.
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