Reese Witherspoon’s presence on a flight once came in handy when the in-flight movie stopped playing.
During theYour Place or Mineactress’s appearance onLate Night with Seth Meyersthis week, Witherspoon, 46, said she was put in an odd spot on a flight when the airline happened to show her 2010 movieHow Do You Know— only for the film to cut off just a few minutes in.
Witherspoon explained that both she and her children, who were with her on the plane at the time, found the situation embarrassing.
“And then probably, maybe 10 minutes into the in-flight movie it cut out and the clip broke, the tape broke or something,” she told Meyers, 49. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, oh my God,’ and everyone started looking at me.”
Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd inHow Do You Know(2010).Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock
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With no other movies available on the flight, Witherspoon said she decided to go to the front of the airplane, asked permission to use the flight attendant’s microphone and walked the passengers through the plot of the movie.
Reese Witherspoon and Owen Wilson inHow Do You Know(2010).Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock
The movie, which also starsPaul Rudd,Owen WilsonandJack Nicholson, follows Witherspoon’s softball-player character as she decides between a relationship with two men, a pro baseball player (Wilson) or a recently fired corporate executive (Rudd).
“It was actually so fun and funny to get to tell people the entire plot of my movie in like three minutes,” Witherspoon told Meyers, as the host joked that passengers must have been surprised to find the star of the in-flight movie on their flight.
Witherspoon’s new rom-com withAshton Kutcher,Your Place or Mine, begins streaming on Netflix Friday.
source: people.com
