Reese Witherspoon got honest about the current state of Hollywood

[hewontgo]

Reese Witherspoon Questions If Careers Like Hers and Jennifer Aniston's Are "Possible Ever Again" With Streaming https://t.co/swp6lyWd7M
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) April 13, 2024
Witherspoon was taking part in a PaleyFest conversation about the most recent season of The Morning Show. She got honest about the current state of Hollywood and

Comments

[_kleptomane]

When has the industry not been potentially “glamorous and fun” and when has an actor’s ordeal not been audition after audition with the wish of scoring a meaningful part? She didn’t really say anything there.

[sarahvma]

I suspect it’s a veiled statement about social media stars just getting handed stuff, or a comment about how these lazy young people expect starring roles right away.

[_kleptomane]

I can see that but then, it’s kind of ironic with bringing in Jennifer Aniston since she benefited from nepotism.

[madame_no]

And Reese with her son! Like shortcuts are fine when you and you’re benefit from it, but everyone else needs to put in the work. How Republican of her.

[sarahvma]

And I think AI is not coming for your job; people who know how to use AI are coming for your job.

Genuine nonsense. AI will absolutely be used to cut the bulk of the workforce regardless of how much you embrace it. The goal is always going to be fewer people.

[quinzl13]

And then the average person with no job won’t be able to afford the entertainment and a bunch of execs will sit around and wonder why no one is buying their product.

[pseudonygma]

And the sad part is, the ones who learn to use it aren't getting paid more either unless they're the business owners. AI supposedly makes everything easier so why pay top dollars for something a 6th grader can use? When everyone is a manager, "manager" is just the new word for lowest ranking employee in the company.

[hiimtish]

“That’s a whole conversation - for women and people of color and people who are othered sometimes in those developmental spaces really need to get in there… let’s not be scared of it, let’s dive in.”

um yeah they’re trying??? And they’re not given jobs??? lol what is this…it feels very ‘pick yourself up by your bootstraps’

[zibbydoo324]

Not how I interpreted it. I think she’s calling out the fact that they aren’t in the room because the industry is not putting them there. I don’t get bootstrap vibes at all.

[sarahvma]

Nah she is saying “they” need to get in there. Not that the industry needs to put them there.

[zibbydoo324]

Exactly… they need to get in there is saying they need to be in the room with a voice. She isn’t blaming them for not being in the room. She is aware that it is not their choice that they are not there.

[squirrels_oh_no]

IDK, from my perspective Reese's career right now is in a way being emulated by Margot Robbie, right down to the production company, unless she means less her career as an actor and more her career as a producer, in which case IDK, producers are also responsible for a lot of what is going on, even if it's mostly studios.

[januarysix]

Sydney Sweeney also seems to be taking charge of her career. didn't she finance her latest movie, the one with the nun? I would not be surprised if she started her own production company as well.

[squirrels_oh_no]

I know she produced it and found funding for it herself. I wonder if Reese is specifically talking from her perspective as a producer in the streaming era for things her production company is seeking funding for, but not from her place as an actress. Hello Sunshine / Pacific Standard are more than just Reese as an actress even if she stars in a lot of the projects. She produced Gone Girl, after all. Hello Sunshine / Pacific Standard are big in the book adaptation sphere, which makes sense given that she also went hard into her book club. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Sunshine_(company)

TBH I do enjoy her book club >.>

[delfintaka]

I *think* she means that since streaming does not make data about the popularity of their various products public, individuals actors currently have less ability to access their "power" with in the industry.

I think it probably applies more to Aniston. But yeah, i am pretty curious about what she was talking about with that comment.

[halloween1978]

I hate the "it's not going anywhere, just deal with it" stance.