- The new series produced by and with Reese Witherspoon, Little Fires Everywhere, is available this Friday on Amazon Prime Video.
- Reese Witherspoon currently has shows being broadcast or in development on almost all streaming platforms: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Apple TV Plus and even Quibi.
- Back on the irresistible rise of the blonde in the “Legally Blonde” saga.
The real revenge of a blonde! In the disturbing and captivating Little Fires Everywhere series, available this Friday on Amazon Prime Video, Reese Witherspoon once again adopts the preppy outfits dear to the residents of these chic American suburbs where horrible dramas are unfolding under the impeccable varnish of appearances. A look she had already sported in Big Little Lies. A look she had parodied in the cinema, in candy pink version, in the saga "Legally Blonde". Reese Witherspoon currently has shows being broadcast or in development on almost all streaming platforms: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Apple TV Plus and even Quibi. To make the grand slam, only Disney + is missing! How Reese Witherspoon became one of the most powerful women in Hollywood? (And it's not because her best friend is Oprah Winfrey or that Taylor Swift did a private showcase for her 40th birthday!)
It all started in 2000 with the launch of his production company Type A, which produced the Legally Blonde trilogy , which made more than $ 430 million at the box office. If an Oscar for best actress for Walk The Line in 2006 and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2010 crown the queen of the rom-com of the 2000s, the blonde seriously has to build her empire in 2012 with the creation of Pacific Standard, Type A merger with Make Up Stories by Australian producer Bruna Papandrea.
Tell stories of women (and play strong roles)
The two women are to give a mission in the industry: to tell stories about women to give "strong female roles" to the actresses. An idea that sprouted in her blonde brain because six of her favorite actresses "were fighting over a really bad role in a movie," she told reporters at the 2015 Oscar nominee lunch, the report said. by The Huffington Post.
With Pacific Standard, the two women embark on the production of feature films: Wild , which earned the actress her second Oscar nomination, Gone Girl , Hot Pursuit , Lucy in the Sky and The Dry .
Everything changes when the two friends tackle the adaptation of Liane Moriarty's best-seller, Big Little Lies. In 2016, Reese Witherspoon Bruna Papandrea separated. The actress founded Hello Sunshine, a new production company, dedicated to women's stories.
"My lifelong passion has been to tell stories of women with authenticity and humor," Witherspoon said in a statement. “Hello Sunshine is deeply committed to creating content that will reach women where they spend time, whether in the movies, at home or on their mobile devices. Women seek entertainment that tells them about what they enjoy. Hello Sunshine will make content that will entertain, educate and bring women together. "
Demonstrate that there is a market for these women's stories
The resounding success of its mini-series Big Little Lies , which won eight Emmy Awards and four Golden Globes, proves in Hollywood that there is a growing market for women's stories on television, especially on premium platforms like HBO and streaming platforms.
Hollywood begins to take the actress' feminist ambitions very seriously. "We have to see the real experience of women, whether it's domestic violence, sexual assault, motherhood or unfaithfulness or divorce" and not just "in theaters on a budget", says during the Big Little Lies panel at the Winter TCA Press Tour 2017.
As Big Little Lies offered Witherspoon the opportunity to speak more and more about the change she hoped for, a great movement began to take over the world, #MeToo. Quite naturally, in 2018, Reese Witherspoon becomes one of the founders of Time's Up, against sexual harassment.
At the same time, Reese Witherspoon is working to bring real and lasting change to the industry. “We only have compassion if we see stories through the eyes of others, and we need a wider range of storytellers. They must be women, people of color, LGBTQ people. The narrative needs to be more balanced, ”she says in the March issue of O, The Oprah magazine.
With Hello Sunshine, the actress continues her career as a successful series producer with a season 2 of Big Little Lies (with Meryl Streep as a bonus), with the first drama series from Apple TV + The Morning Show, which she wears alongside Jennifer Aniston, with Truth Be Told always for Apple TV +, worn by Octavia Spencer, Lizzy Caplan and Aaron Paul, and with Little Fires Everywhere , adaptation of the eponymous best seller Celeste Ng published in 2017, in which she gives the replies to Kerry Washington, the ex-star of Scandal .
Diversify with stories of women ... and females
Hello Sunshine diversifies with Handmade * Mostly on YouTube, a program for small businesses run by women, the talk show Turning Point , where successful women tell the turning point in their careers, Meet My Mom , broadcast on Facebook Watch and IGTV , where celebrities interviewing their mothers.
Reese Witherspoon has three other projects in development: an untitled comic series for Apple TV Plus, From Scratch, based on the memories of Tembi Locke, to be played by Zoe Saldana, expected on Netflix, and Daisy Jones & the Six for Amazon Prime Video, a 12-episode musical drama detailing the rise and fall of a rock band in the 1970s, carried by Riley Keough, the granddaughter of King Elvis Presley.
If queens succeed kings, it is the same in the animal kingdom! The actress also announced a wildlife documentary series Fierce Queens , dedicated to phenomenal females. In short, a feminine point of view on natural history.
In July 2019, she launched her own VOD channel, Hello Sunshine, in partnership with AT&T, and her own talk show, Shine On With Reese, which "celebrates the stories of extraordinary women who have created their own path to success, "according to the press release.
Oh, and then there's also this Legally Blonde feature film in the works. And his lifestyle book, Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits . The recipe for the success of Reese Witherspoon is always the same: identify beautiful stories of women, thanks in particular to its book club, produce it and embody the heroine. Nothing seems to be able to stop the blonde. "Like Elle Woods, I don't like to be underestimated," she warned. One question pisses us off: when does she find time to sleep?
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