'It took up a tremendous amount of fear': Reese Witherspoon discusses 'terrifying' love scenes in new movie Wild as she poses for low-key fashion shoot
Her new movie Wild sees her embark on a 1,100 mile trek across the Pacific Crest Trail, but Reese Witherspoon found the love scenes more 'daunting.'
The Oscar-winning actress spoke about her fears to Harper's Bazaar UK, as well as take part in a glamorous photoshoot.
'[The love scenes were], like, three per cent of the movie, but it took up a tremendous amount of fear in my mind because it's daunting,' Reese told the magazine.
'I never looked ahead at the schedule. I would wake up in the morning and say, "What are we doing today?" And I'd prepare on the way to work. Sometimes I was just terrified. Like a cat on a raft… "You can't make me do it."'
Wild tells the real life story of Cheryl Strayed, who in 1994 decided to hike more than a thousand miles on her own as a way to heal herself following her divorce, the death of her mother, and years of reckless and destructive behaviour as a drug addict.
'I definitely could [see myself in the role of Cheryl]. I just wanted to make sure [Cheryl] understood, no matter how the movie was going to get to the screen, it wasn't about me having to be in it,' Reese said,
'If I'm not the right person to play the part, I need to know that. Ego is the death of all creativity.'
The actress - who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as Nancy Carter-Cash in Walk The Line - says that she never likes to get stereotyped for her pretty looks.
'Don't put me in that box. Or any box, for that matter. People are complex, on-screen and off. Can't we do justice to that?' Witherspoon told the magazine.
She also commented on the idea that there is a lack of roles for women in Hollywood.
'It wasn't as if there was a lack of roles being offered to me,' she explained.
'It was the dynamic aspect of playing a really interesting, complicated person that was not readily available. Honestly, I don't know a woman who isn't complicated. It's strange that you don't see many complicated women on film; complicated meaning complex, I should say.'
