{"id":39698,"date":"2021-11-09T10:57:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T23:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=204911"},"modified":"2021-11-09T05:06:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T05:06:48","slug":"reese-witherspoon-gayle-king","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/reese-witherspoon-gayle-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Reese Witherspoon: “Not empowering someone with information is a form of control.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reese Witherspoon<\/a> and American TV Personality Gayle King<\/a> are perhaps the most prominent women in their industries. This week\u00a0InStyle<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>put the two trailblazers in the same room for a celebrity-fuelled interview. The result? A conversation on women empowerment. It comes after the award-winning actress recently appeared in season two of Morning Wars,<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>an Apple TV+ series that navigates the #MeToo movement (and its aftermath) in the television industry.<\/p>\n

Witherspoon serves as an executive producer on the acclaimed series but as she discussed with King, it wasn’t easy to break through an industry normally dominated by men. The women were speaking about gender biases and the assumption that women shouldn’t or don’t understand business agreements.<\/p>\n

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“Actresses, they’re infantilized,” Witherspoon told King. “People don’t talk to them about money or deals; they say, “Oh, don’t worry about that, we have that.” Not empowering someone with information is a form of control. So at a certain point in my career, I kind of took back the reins. I finally picked up the phone and said, “I’m not excited about this one part of my deal,” and my agent was like, “Well, let’s change it.”<\/p>\n

In 2016 Witherspoon founded production company, Hello Sunshine, which brought Morning Wars <\/em>and Big Little Lies <\/em>to the small screen. Just this year the actress sold it for $900 million<\/a> USD (or just over $1 billion AUD). According to Witherspoon, the negotiations took two months but she recalled crying when she received the cheque.<\/p>\n

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