Just my opinion: I think Reese Witherspoon adjusted her Oscar campaign mid-stream because she was afraid of looking like she was shoving her Oscar-bait films down everyone’s throat. Like, two months ago I would have said that Reese’s Oscar campaign was going to be the most annoying, but now? Nowadays, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jennifer Aniston seem hellbent on convincing everyone that they’re worthy. And Reese has toned it down significantly.
These are photos of Reese out with her family at the Farmer’s Market in LA. You know who goes to the Farmer’s Market a lot? Jennifer Garner. Garner went to the Farmer’s Market constantly when Ben Affleck was campaigning for Argo. So Reese had to get in on it too! Jim Toth was there, as was their son Tennessee (he’s adorable). And Reese’s oldest kid, her beautiful daughter Ava. Ava is 15 years old and she has pink hair now!!! Think about that… American Citizen™ Reese is the mother of a teenager. A punked-out teenager with a Manic Panic dye job! Does this make Reese more or less relatable to Academy voters, most of whom are old white men? My guess is that Ava might remind those old white men of their granddaughters. Reese might even play it up, like “You know, I have a teenage daughter, feminism plus family values, y’all.”
Reese is doing press for Wild these days, but she’s being pretty careful to do strategic interviews, timed out so she avoids oversaturation (coughCumbycough). There’s a new piece in THR about how Reese shepherded Wild to the screen because she felt so passionately about the material, blah, etc. You can read it here.
PS… Even with punk pink hair, Ava still looks like an LL Bean model, for goodness sake. She’s so wholesome-looking!!
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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