“I said no”: Reese Witherspoon Felt Horrible During Her S*x Scene With Mark Wahlberg When She Was Only 19 Years Old

Reese Witherspoon Felt Horrible During Her S*x Scene With Mark Wahlberg When She Was Only 19 Years Old

Reese Witherspoon has been in the acting industry since a young age. From making her debut as a teenager in 1991’s The Man in the Moon, she got recognized in the late 1990s for her supporting roles. Her leading role in Legally Blonde and its sequel won several hearts. Next came her Oscar-winning performance as June Carter Cash in the musical biopic Walk the Line. Since then, she is among the prominent actors in the industry.

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Reese Witherspoon Shared Her Experience Filming a S*x Scene With Mark Wahlberg

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Reminiscing about that time, she shared, “I didn’t have control over it.”

She continued,

“It wasn’t explicit in the script that that’s what was going to happen, so that was something that I think the director thought of on his own and then asked me on set if I would do it.”

She found the situation uncomfortable stating,

“And I said no. It wasn’t a particularly great experience.”

She admitted that the experience was not great however it prepared her for what women have to face in the acting industry.

Reese Witherspoon Understood Women’s Place in Filmmaking

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 “I’m certainly not traumatised or anything by it, but it was formative.”

She continued,

“It made me understand where my place was in the pecking order of filmmaking.”

She further how this incident shaped her to be an agent of change.

“I think it’s another one of those stories that made me want to be an agent for change and someone who can maybe be in a better leadership position to tell stories from a female perspective instead of from the male gaze.”

The film since then got cult status with the then-young duo getting acknowledged as teen idols giving further prominence to them.

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