She's not a lawyer, she just played one on TV.
During a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show, Reese Witherspoon reminisced on the time she was called to jury duty years ago, something she admitted she wasn't exactly excited to do at the time, and how her 2001 film Legally Blonde impacted her experience, per People.
"It was probably like seven years after Legally Blonde, I got called for jury duty and it was in Beverly Hills," she said. "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."
The Morning Show star added that she spent "two solid weeks every day" going to jury duty and was "very invested" in the case, which involved allegations of a dog biting a neighbor. However, things took a turn for Witherspoon when the jury went into deliberation.
"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,'" she said, adding that they chose her because she "went to law school."
While she may have spent some time in the courtroom filming her iconic role as budding lawyer Elle Woods, Witherspoon didn't exactly have the experience her fellow jurors thought she had.
"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."
Check out the video below to see Witherspoon tell the story for herself.