As a result of never being taught about other sexual orientations as a child, Reese Witherspoon didn’t “understand” what homosexuality was until she moved to Los Angeles.
During Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Reese and her Legally Blonde 2 co-star, Regina King, spoke with each other, and touched upon the topic of Reese’s recent miniseries, Little Fires Everywhere.
Reese said it allowed her to look back to the 1990s and think about conversations her parents or grandparents had had with her on topics like race and class and sexuality.
However, she explained: “No one spoke to me about sexuality when I was a teenager.I didn’t understand what homosexuality was.