Reese Witherspoon Was on Jury Duty After ‘Legally Blonde’ and Got Shocked When Jurors Thought She Was a Real Lawyer: ‘This Is Really Upsetting’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Reese Witherspoon recently revealed on “The Graham Norton Show” (via Entertainment Weekly) that she got the shock of a lifetime when she was called for jury duty years after the release of 2001’s “Legally Blonde.” But it had nothing to do with the case itself.

The Oscar winner found out that her fellow jurors actually thought she was a real lawyer due to her iconic portrayal of Elle Woods. “Listen, I did not want to do jury duty,” Witherspoon said. “But I remember it was probably seven years after ‘Legally Blonde,’ I got called for jury duty and it was in Beverly Hills.

I thought, ‘Surely they’re not gonna pick me.’ They picked me for a long trial, y’all. It was probably two weeks.” “It was two solid weeks every day going in,” Witherspoon continued. “And then we went to deliberation and so at the very end they say, ‘Okay, well somebody in this group has to be the foreman.’ And they all unanimously are like, ‘Her.'” The jurors were pointing to Witherspoon, of course.

On a jury, the foreman is tasked with keeping the jurors focused and announces the verdict to the court after a decision is reached.