Reese Witherspoon Shares How She Was Made Foreman on Jury After Starring in “Legally Blonde”: ‘I Didn’t Finish College’

"I definitely did not go to law school, I didn’t finish college," the actress told TV host Graham Norton

Reese Witherspoon is playing by the books!

On Friday's episode of The Graham Norton Show, the actress, 48, recalled how starring in the 2001 movie Legally Blonde affected her experience serving on a jury.

“Well listen, I did not want to do jury duty,” Witherspoon told host Graham Norton, 61. “But I remember it was after Legally Blonde. It was probably like seven years after Legally Blonde, I got called for jury duty and it was in Beverly Hills.”

She continued, “I thought, ‘Surely they’re not gonna pick me.’ They picked me for a long trial, y'all. It was probably two weeks. I was on the jury." 

“That’s not that long,” fellow guest and You're Cordially Invited costar Will Ferrell chimed in, to which Witherspoon replied, “Okay, Ferrell.”

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Ferrell, 57, continued, “I thought you were going to say a month.” 

“No listen, it was two solid weeks every day going in,” Witherspoon said. “And I was watching it and it was a dog bite case but it was very clear, I was very invested in this case.”

She continued, “We went every day 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.’”

“Me, me?,” the Cruel Intentions star shrieked as she pointed to herself.

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Witherspoon then recalled how the group explained they picked her because “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,’” she said. “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.”

Witherspoon continued, “If you get picked for jury duty, please do it,” adding that “some bad stuff goes down there.”

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She went on to recall how some of the jury believed a defendant was guilty because they didn't like “the way she looked.”

The Morning Show actress explained that the case involved a neighbor who sued a dog owner after the dog bit her hand.

However, “this other lady put her hand in a dog fight.” 

“What did your mother always tell you, don’t put your hand in a dog fight,” Witherspoon said.