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“I did not want to do jury duty,” Witherspoon said on the Graham Norton Show.
“It was probably seven years after Legally Blonde, I got called for jury duty.
They picked me for alongtrial, y’all.
It was like, probably two weeks.”
“I was like, ‘Why did you pick me?’
And 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 didnt finish college,'” she recalled.
“I played a lawyer in a movie once.
But they fully made me the foreman.
And I started realizing people dont know much about the law.”
In the process, she proves herself as a skilled lawyer in her own right.