may have pretended to go to law school in , but she was surprised to learn that some thought she actually did study that. While appearing on , Witherspoon reflected on having to do jury duty years after the 2001 film’s release. “Listen, I did not want to do jury duty,” Witherspoon said.
“But I remember it was probably seven years after , 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.” When Witherspoon’s co-star Will Ferrell, who was also on the show, teased that two weeks wasn’t “that long” the actress reiterated, “It was two solid weeks, every day going in.” The case centered on a dog biting incident in which a woman sued another dog owner because her dog bit her during a dog fight.
However, things took an interesting turn when Witherspoon explained that she was singled out in the jury group: “And then we went to deliberation and so at the very end they say, ‘OK, well somebody in this group has to be the foreman.’ And they all unanimously are like, ‘Her.’ Me!” After asking why she was being chosen, Witherspoon recalled, “They were like, ‘You went to law school.
'” Realizing that they were mistaken because her Elle Woods persona goes to Harvard Law School, Witherspoon continued to recall, “I was like, ‘Y’all this is really upsetting. I definitely did not go to law school, I didn’t finish college.’ I.
