Reese Witherspoonrelated toSweet Home Alabamajust as much as you did.The actress, 42, starred in the 2002 movie about a big-shot designer living in New York who has to go back home in order to convince her ex to sign the divorce papers so she can get married again. But although the plot is a little more far-fetched, Witherspoon deeply connected to the message of missing home.“When I read the script I was like, ‘Do these people know my life story?’” Witherspoon said while promoting her new book,Whiskey in a Teacup, at a press conference in New York,according toPage Six.“Because no matter how much you love where you’re from, when you get a little bit older you get nostalgic for it. When I was 18, I was like, ‘I am out of here! I am never coming back!’”Emma McIntyre/GettyThough the actress grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and not Alabama, Witherspoon still felt like her old self while shooting the movie in Georgia. According toPage Six, she said it brought back memories of feeling like home is where the heart is.TOUCHSTONE PICTURES/Ronald Grant Archive/Mary Evans/Everett Collection“When I was going throughSweet Home AlabamaI was like, ‘This is exactly how so many young people feel,’ ” she said. “You want to leave home and then you realize that there’s so many important things about the closeness of family or people who knew you before. And I feel really like that movie really encapsulated those ideas. And it was a lot of fun. It was so much fun. I had a great time doing it.”Witherspoon’s new bookWhiskey in a Teacupis in stores now.
Reese Witherspoonrelated toSweet Home Alabamajust as much as you did.
The actress, 42, starred in the 2002 movie about a big-shot designer living in New York who has to go back home in order to convince her ex to sign the divorce papers so she can get married again. But although the plot is a little more far-fetched, Witherspoon deeply connected to the message of missing home.
“When I read the script I was like, ‘Do these people know my life story?’” Witherspoon said while promoting her new book,Whiskey in a Teacup, at a press conference in New York,according toPage Six.“Because no matter how much you love where you’re from, when you get a little bit older you get nostalgic for it. When I was 18, I was like, ‘I am out of here! I am never coming back!’”
Emma McIntyre/Getty
Though the actress grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and not Alabama, Witherspoon still felt like her old self while shooting the movie in Georgia. According toPage Six, she said it brought back memories of feeling like home is where the heart is.
TOUCHSTONE PICTURES/Ronald Grant Archive/Mary Evans/Everett Collection
“When I was going throughSweet Home AlabamaI was like, ‘This is exactly how so many young people feel,’ ” she said. “You want to leave home and then you realize that there’s so many important things about the closeness of family or people who knew you before. And I feel really like that movie really encapsulated those ideas. And it was a lot of fun. It was so much fun. I had a great time doing it.”
Witherspoon’s new bookWhiskey in a Teacupis in stores now.
source: people.com
