Her first success stories, with her previous production company Pacific Standard, were Gone Girl and Wild, both cannily acquired before they went on to become bestsellers (her leading role in the latter also earned Witherspoon a Best Actress Oscar nomination).
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Witherspoon has used her literary nous to option female-led fiction and transform these books into feted film and TV properties (indeed, Cuoco has joked that she was surprised the actress had not already snapped up The Flight Attendant - “The first thing I asked was, ‘has Reese Witherspoon gotten the rights to this book?’” she told one interviewer). “And I thought to myself, ‘I’ve got to get busy.’”
“I think it was literally one studio that had a project for a female lead over 30,” she told Variety.
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Witherspoon, now perhaps Hollywood’s premier actress-producer, was galvanised to create her own roles after she met with a series of studio bosses in 2012 and asked them about the projects they were developing for women. “I didn’t want to pick up another script where I was the wife or the girlfriend - just a catalyst for the male storyline,” Robbie said of her decision to launch Lucky Chap. “I kind of had to take it upon myself to be like, ‘I’m gonna do it!’ because I didn’t know if anyone else would just hand it over to me,” she told the HFPA. Discussing the project in interviews, though, she has made it clear that taking the reins as executive producer gave her the opportunity to play a dramatic role that she almost certainly wouldn’t have been offered otherwise, perhaps thanks to her sit-com roots.
It’s a part that requires her to ricochet from party girl to woman on the verge at breakneck speed, and she pulls it off with finesse.
The former Big Bang Theory star snapped up the rights to the original novel by Chris Bohjalian after she was hooked in by the one-line synopsis on Amazon, and plays the anxiety-ridden, alcohol-dependant lead character Cassie, who gets caught up in a high-stakes conspiracy when she wakes up next to a dead body. The latter series debuted in the United States last year to considerable acclaim, and finally launched on this side of the Atlantic on Sky in March. Promising Young Woman, which stars Carey Mulligan, was backed by Margot Robbie’s Lucky Chap Productions Regina King’s film, which she also directed, was produced under Royal Ties, the regally-named outfit she founded with sister Reina, while The Flight Attendant is the first live-action project for Kaley Cuoco’s company Hello, Norman Productions.
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