When shooting The Man in the Moon, Reese Witherspoon was 14 years old, the same age as her character in the film (Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Not a true story, The Man In The Moon is based on a screenplay by novelist Jenny Wingfield, who spent much of her childhood in Louisiana. A body double was used for her skinny dipping scene. Reese Witherspoon as Danielle ”Dani” Trant, a 14-year-old girl in Louisiana (Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)īorn on March 22, 1976, in New Orleans, she was 14 when shooting The Man in the Moon in Louisiana. Winning a Young Artist Award in the category of Best Young Actress for her performance as Danielle ”Dani” Trant, Reese had turned 15 by the time the film was released on October 4, 1991.
“I’ve seen it literally about 100 times.” “That’s one of my favorite all-time movies ever,” Fallon responded.
“It’s literally my favorite movie,” Lena Dunham said about Reese’s debut film when appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2014. It was funny because she said: ‘Can I always chew gum?’ And I said: ‘Yeah.’” Her compass, her sense of what’s real, kicked in. What was marvelous was, at the end of the scene, Reese knew that something happened. Well, she started chewing gum, and all of a sudden the performance happened. Just before we did another rehearsal, I told her I wanted her to chew gum. “Because in real life she isn’t a tomboy. Reese Witherspoon was just 14 years old when making her film debut in The Man in the Moon (Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Reese was trying to project this in a scene where she had to get angry with the boy, but it had a false ring to it,” he said in an interview. Early in the movie, Dani is a bit of a tomboy. Then, when I tested her in Santa Monica, a strange breakthrough took place. I couldn’t tell whether she could act or not, but she’s got a wonderful face and there’s a brightness and intelligence there. When I saw Reese’s test, she just jumped off the screen, simply as a personality. “We had a casting team that went out and saw several thousand kids and tested them on video. Just 14 years old when she auditioned for a part as an extra in the coming of age drama film, her audition impressed director Robert Mulligan and she was offered the central role of tomboy Dani Trant.ĭirector Robert Mulligan admitted it was a risky decision to cast the Louisiana-born, Tennessee-raised actress in The Man on the Moon. Reese Witherspoon made her screen debut as Danielle ”Dani” Trant in The Man in the Moon (Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) Reese Witherspoon wears her blonde hair down on February 26, 2016, as she runs errands in Santa Monica, California (Credit: WENN)Ģ5 years earlier, she made her film debut in the 1991 American coming of age drama film The Man in the Moon, which was the final film directed by Robert Mulligan. It was February 2016 and spring hadn’t officially kicked in yet, but “The Man in the Moon” actress Reese Witherspoon didn’t seem to notice when she stepped out to run some errands in Santa Monica.
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