Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoonis an American actress and producer. Born in Louisiana and raised in Tennessee, Witherspoon began her career as a child actress, making her professional screen debut in The Man in the Moon, for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth22 March 1976
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
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People used to ask June how she was doing, and she would say I'm just trying to matter. I know what she means.
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June Carter used to say, 'I'm just trying to matter'. And I know what she means. I'm just trying to matter and make work that means something.
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June Carter had a long heritage of just being the spokesperson for country music and the face of country music.
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Oh, my God, y'all. Sometimes, I can't just shake the feeling that I'm just a little girl from Tennessee. I want to say my biggest inspiration for this movie obviously was June Carter. She was an incredible woman.
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To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same religion and shared a lot of the same values of family and spirituality. But I was really so inspired by what a modern woman she was.
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I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.
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Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.
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No one can sing like June Carter so I just tried to sing my very best.
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And you know, life is a constant learning experience. I learn so much with my kids. I read tons of books and study what they're studying.
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Romantic comedy has really evolved since that time when there used to be a lot of social conventions and all sorts of reasons why people couldn't be together,
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The thing is, we're not extravagant people. It's just unbelievable the amounts of money we make. But we don't spend it. It's too scary to spend it.
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So that's been sort of a different dynamic for both of us, I think. But it has been really good.
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So thank you so much for this honor.
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At that point, music was very organic. It wasn't about synthesizing sounds or creating a computer. It was about storytelling and interpretation and performance. There was a lot of that kind of coaching going on.