These are some new photos of Reese Witherspoon over the weekend, receiving the Gene Siskel Film Center Renaissance Award – it’s basically a lifetime achievment award for her body of work. Reese wore this really cute maternity dress by Vanessa Bueno. I wanted to note two things about her appearance: first, I think Reese looks adorable pregnant. Some women just look incredibly cute while knocked up, and Reese is one of them. She looks younger and happier. Her preggo enthusiasm is lovely. The second thing I wanted to note – is it just me, or does her bump look sort of strange? I’m not calling her Beyonce or anything…but it’s kind of weird. Maybe it’s just the dress. Anyway, if you’d like to read more about Reese and her award, go here.
Meanwhile, Reese continues to make post-baby career plans. Late last week, a new, dumb-sounding film was announced, and Reese is already attached to star. The film? Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. For real. They’re making a non-fiction dating/relationship-advice book into a movie. Deadline noted, “The film is based on the John Gray self-help title, a guide to relationships and marriage that is the best selling non-fiction hardcover book of all-time (excepting the Bible and Koran) with over 7 million copies in circulation.” They don’t even have a script yet, but I can imagine it will be the same kind of nonsense offered by What To Expect When You’re Expecting. They already know when they’ll start filming too – January 2013. Because I guess there are no worries that the script won’t be good enough? You know I actually think Reese is incredibly talented, but I wish she wouldn’t waste her talent on crappy, poorly written rom-coms like this. Sigh…
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I don’t know. I think she looked way better at Cannes.
Not excited about her movies. Can’t think of the last time I liked what she was in. so I don’t see myself seeing this. If she is filming in January then she is not taking much of a break after the baby.
she needs to stop doing rom coms for a while, because for me-they are all starting to run together..
Agreed. “How Do You Know” was the worst rom com I have seen..maybe ever.
YES! especially one based on such a crappy book! Has anybody actually read it? IT is so juvenile and outrageously gender stereotyping. Plus The author has been divorced like 7 times…
In my eyes, she will never top the cinematic classic “Legally Blonde”. Every time I watch it I want to become a lawyer!
Never read it; don’t intend to watch it on screen. Is H-Wood really so plot-deficient that the ONLY movies it’s going to continue to produce are remakes and self-help books and other smarm?
I could have sworn I read a quote from her along the lines of after she finishes whatever she’s filming in Kansas, she was going to “take some time off, you know, to have a baby.” And now she’s signed on to something that starts in 6 or 7 months, without even reading a script?
Dramas and indies, Reese. Dramas and indies.
She does look great though. Just needs to stop doing romcoms.
Making non-fiction books into movies doesn’t work. I think is just an excuse to get an all star cast and hoping for a hit.
well, it did work once. The book I think was something like “Queen bees and wannabes” and the film was “Mean girls”. But that was an exception. So unless the screen writer is Tina Fey, Rheese Whiterspoon should at least have waited for the screenplay.
Let’s not forget He’s Just Not That into You. Made for $40 million with worldwide profits nearly $180 million.
Maybe she’s a workaholic, but the crap she’s choosing these days…
of course she did. that’s right up her crappy rom-com alley.
She needs to do something with a little more bite, a more Flick-like bite. Where are those scripts for adult women?
Once Reese won her Oscar for Walk the Line I reckon she decided that she’d proven herself as an actor and gave herself permission to start acting purely for the money. NIc Cage did the same thing after he won his Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas.
Sounds like “He’s Just Not That Into You” 2.0. Ugh.
The bump is fine – she just looks like she is a gal who carries high. On one hand, it can be a serious pain for the mom (it often happens in small women who don’t have as much room for a baby to stretch out) as the kid is essentially sitting on her lungs but one of the perks can be when she drops and is about ready to pop – EVERYONE knows. Rather like watching the ball drop on New Year’s Eve!
You are so right! That was me! I’m only 5 feet tall and at first I carried so high I could barely breathe. Granted, I was carrying triplets, but it felt like the kids had crawled up into my ribcage and were squeezing my lungs. I just panted and wheezed my way through pregnancy. Of course before long I was simultaneously carrying high and low. 🙂 I had to sit with my legs spread because otherwise when I sat there was nowhere for the bottom of my belly to go. I was one sexy pregnant lady. Oh yeah.
I would rather stab my eyes out with a sharp stick then shove my head into a bee hive than watch Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus.
Hollywood is so depressing-so few decent roles for women.
She’s cute prego. But a total jen aniston who can never step out of her same old junky scripts. Boring.
She’s so desperate to get hits. Going for the famous book adaptations because it worked for Meryl Streep and Viola Davis. She is talented. Her greed for hits at any cost and not caring about quality is larger than her talent.
I do wonder why no one is knocking down her door to work with her. No big time director or no studio trying to lock her up for projects. It makes me wonder about what Robert Luketic said about her and never wanting to work with her ever again (and this man worked with Heigl, Spacey and Lopez). Maybe all that talk is just that, talk with her and she realized she needs to pay the bills like everyone else. Either way, she stills does not seem to be humbling.
I agree, Tiffany, she does not seem to be maturing very quickly and becoming more humble. I will never pay money to see anything she is in. I have read nothing but terrible stories of how rude she is real life. Then you have to consider the terrible things she says about other stars. Even her costar Robert Pattinson wasn’t perfect enough for her. She talked on and on of how he had an awful cold during the movie they filmed together and what a bad experience it was.
Do people even care about that cheesy series of books anymore? I mean, it was silly when it first came out, and now the idea seems painfully stale. I do agree with an poster above that Reese needs to step back and do some other types of projects for a while, before she becomes too closely associated with bad romcoms, if it isn’t too late already.
i hate the concept. so backwards. i thought simone de beauvoir established the fact that we’re not born martians or venusians? gender roles are passed on and taught through family and society. and whoever defies those roles becomes an outcast or is shunned at least for some part of their lives for it. which is why more people can’t object to it even if they had been given a choice
I totally agree that the whole Mars/Venus notion is ridiculously simplistic, and serves as an excuse for so much of the stupidity we see–e.g. the notion that a man left alone with his own child couldn’t possibly diaper/feed/parent, that a woman will be totally happy if only you give her some bling, and on and on. Basically, these rigid gender roles (and books like Mars/Venus that support and reinforce them) cause so much trouble.
I usually like Reese a lot, but this is pissing me off. She needs to do something edgier–she’s great in dark comedy.
Hey Reese, remember how you won that oscar? And it was for a movie that WASN’T a rom-com? Yeah, please go back to that.
Sounds like crap, basically like all the other movies she’s done in the past few years. What a waste of her talent.
So uhm I rented This Means War this weekend , Reese dear I think it’s time u go back to doing dramatic work cuz this crap ain’t cutting it
Isn’t that the developmental title of every rom-com for the past 20 years?
I haven’t liked anything she’s been in since “Election”.