As I’ve said a few times this week, for me, Reese Witherspoon kind of jumped the shark at the MTV Movie Awards when she decided to get on her judgy, hypocritical high horse and bash Blake Lively, the Kardashians and anyone else who doesn’t meet her standards. Reese got up and accepted her MTV “Generation Award” and told the audience, “I know it’s cool to be bad, I get it … but it’s also possible to make it in Hollywood without a reality show. When I came up in this business you made a sex tape and you were embarrassed and hid it under your bed and like if you took naked pictures of yourself on your cell phone, you hid your face.” What really, really pisses me off is that Reese does have a valid point, she just made it in a dumb way. I would love it if more people stood up for the young women with talent and intelligence, rather than the dumb d-bags who make sex tapes and the party girls flashing their biscuits every night. But the way to stand up for intelligence, talent and decency is to NOT make the issue about “hiding your face.”

As a few people pointed out, this doesn’t really correspond with what Reese recently said in her Elle UK interview:

“How hard we are on people who are just doing their best. When we start measuring women on their appearance … We’re just too hard on each other. Women need to be more supportive of each other, stop tearing each other apart. There’s plenty of room for all of us. There’s plenty of men for all of us. There’s plenty of jobs. There’s plenty of room! I really believe it. Another actress out there has a number-one movie? They’re going to make more movies about women. A female writer sells a script? They’re going to look at another script from another woman. The better one woman does, the better all women do.”

So… it’s clear that Reese is only shilling the sisterhood and female-empowerment just as long as the women in question don’t take photos of themselves naked or have anything but a prudish, lights-out, missionary-position sex life. I know some would agree with Reese – and yes, someone like Blake taking photos of themselves naked and presumably sending those photos to a dude, it’s kind of tacky. But it’s also really common, and it happens a lot with celebrities and non-celebrities, and really? What’s the big friggin’ deal? I don’t have a sex tape, and I only have some boob photos floating around, but I’m not getting on my high horse about Blake or Kim Kardashian or anybody else. Because at the end of the day, I just feel like “Live and let live.” Something (Blake’s rack) can be interesting to talk about without getting all judgy and sanctimonious about it. Plus, if all of this is really about Blake’s alleged affair with a certain married man… where’s the judgy, prudish condemnation of the dude? No, never! Ben Affleck makes cute dimpled babies with Jennifer Garner! Why would anyone say anything bad about him? Just bash the wanton slut!!!

Anyway, I bring this all up because Reese is a jackass. On the heels of her “I’m a good girl” prude speech, she’s signed on to a raunchy Hangover-meets-Bridesmaids comedy called Who Invited Her? Little Miss Holier-Than-Thou is going to be in a film where off-color language is used! And possibly nudity! Oh, poor, poor good girl Reese.

Water for Elephants lead and recent recipient of the MTV’s Generations Award Reese Witherspoon has set up her next movie project: EW has confirmed that she’ll star in — and produce — the comedy Who Invited Her? from DreamWorks Studios. The project’s official logline describes it as a movie “about a woman who insists on tagging along on a guy’s bachelor party weekend.” Could it be The Hangover with a female component? Surely sounds like it. And who wouldn’t want to channel a little bit of that Hangover box-office magic?

Novelist Sascha Rothchild, who is writing and executive producing her book How To Get Divorced By 30 into a comedy for Universal, is set to pen the script, while The Soloist‘s Gary Foster will produce alongside Witherspoon, who has recently been taking more behind-the-scenes roles in movies like the yet-to-be-released comedy This Means War, which stars Tom Hardy and Chris Pine.

[From Entertainment Weekly]

I’m sure Reese’s character will wander around the bachelor party, giving sanctimonious lectures to the strippers while winningly tilting her chin and giving a “Boys will boys” eye roll to the male characters’ shenanigans. Basically, Reese is trying to retain her “I’m such a good girl” image and hoping you won’t notice that she’s trying to outgrow such a confining, unprofitable image as she gets older.

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