Sofia Vargeras will be just fine, Reese Witherspoon!
What you need to focus on rescuing in your career.
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Reese Witherspoon hasn’t had a box office hit since Four Christmases, way back in 2008!
Well actually, that’s not totally true - as a producer she scored big-time with Gone Girl
last year. And while she also managed to wrangle herself another Oscar nomination for Wild,
which she also produced, the savvy Witherspoon surely realizes her Hollywood star desparetely
needs some polish. And while a brief return to comedy with This Means War in 2012 didn’t
work out, Witherspoon is hoping to literally cash in on the current female comedy craze.
And Hot Pursuit, which Witherspoon is also producing, certainly does seem to be cut from
the same cloth as recent hits The Heat and The Other Woman. And the film even boasts
a female director, Anne Fletcher, who helped Sandra Bullock stage her own comeback with
2009’s The Proposal. In case you’re wondering, Hot Pursuit isn’t a full femme flush, as
it was written by two male screenwriters. But the current popularity of female driven
comedies is no secret these days, and just one week after it hits theaters Hot Pursuit
will have to compete with Pitch Perfect 2, and then a few weeks later Melissa McCarthy’s
Spy. But while Witherspoon is in danger of underperforming, this is a great opportunity
for Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara. Vergara, already one of the biggest names on the small
screen, has slowly but surely been building her big screen career. And while appearing
in movies like The Smurfs, The Three Stooges and Machete Kills might have seemed like questionable
career moves, they allowed Vergara to work her way up to Fading Gigolo opposite John
Turturro and Woody Allen, a supporting role in Jon Favreau’s breakout hit Chef, and
now she’s one of the LEADS in Hot Pursuit! Who knows what she’ll be able to accomplish
next?! So while Witherspoon might not be able to save her own career, perhaps she’ll at
least be able to push Vergara ahead. Couple that with what she’s done for Rosamund Pike’s
career and you have something pretty darn admirable - women supporting each other onscreen,
and off!