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Reese Witherspoon looks set to become the highest paid actress – officially. While Reese was for a long time the highest paid actress currently working (Julie Roberts was having babies) she looks set to earn $US29 million. I’m not sure if this fee is for producing as well as acting, but even if it’s for two jobs, it’s not a pay cheque to be sniffed at!
Witherspoon is still making comedies; this winter, she’ll team with Vince Vaughn on Four Christmases, a Meet the Fockers-style farce about a couple trying to spend the holidays at each of their divorced parents’ separate homes. But nowadays she’s also steering her career toward genres — and paychecks — nobody would have imagined before she snagged that statuette for Walk the Line. Next year, for instance, she’s slated to make her first horror movie, Our Family Trouble, for which she’ll reportedly be paid the staggering salary of $29 million. That’s more than even Roberts has ever earned.
In the same interview with Entertainment Weekly the director, Gavin Hood, of her new movie Rendition speaks out about the romance that was meant to have developed on set between Reese and Jake Gyllenhaal. He says that “to this day, I genuinely don’t know if they had a relationship.”
”But I can promise you that Reese and Jake were never together on the set. All of Jake’s scenes took place in Morocco and all Reese’s in L.A. The only time they crossed paths — when the paparazzi caught them — was on the way into a wardrobe fitting. Maybe some chemistry happened as they passed in the parking lot that day — I don’t know. All I can say is that she was absolutely focused when it came to making the movie.”
Reese is currently rumoured to be on holiday with Jake and her kids in Martha’s Vineyard, but no pictures have emerged. I imagine that the first pictures of the couple would be worth a lot of money to paparazzi, so if the holiday is for real then expect pictures soon. And when those pictures come out, please let Jake Gyllenhaal be at the beach with no shirt. Just for me, okay?
Picture Note by Celebitchy: Witherspoon is shown announcing her “ambassadorship” with Avon at the beginning of this month. Thanks to WENN.
Written by Helen
Posted in Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon
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