Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
Listen, I did not want to do jury duty. 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. 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.’
They were like, ‘You went to law school.’ I was like, ‘Y’all this is really upsetting. I definitely did not go to law school, I didn’t finish college.’ I played a lawyer in a movie once but they fully made me the foreman and I started realizing… people don’t know much about the law.
— Reese Witherspoon, star of the “Legally Blonde” film franchise, in comments given during an appearance on “The Graham Norton Show,” where she spoke about her experience serving as a jury foreperson with a group who mistakenly believed that she was a real lawyer who had attended law school thanks to her acting roles.
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky, X/Twitter, and Threads, or connect with her on LinkedIn.
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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
Listen, I did not want to do jury duty. 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. 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.’
They were like, ‘You went to law school.’ I was like, ‘Y’all this is really upsetting. I definitely did not go to law school, I didn’t finish college.’ I played a lawyer in a movie once but they fully made me the foreman and I started realizing… people don’t know much about the law.
— Reese Witherspoon, star of the “Legally Blonde” film franchise, in comments given during an appearance on “The Graham Norton Show,” where she spoke about her experience serving as a jury foreperson with a group who mistakenly believed that she was a real lawyer who had attended law school thanks to her acting roles.
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky, X/Twitter, and Threads, or connect with her on LinkedIn.
