How Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington Channeled Their Own Mothers in Little Fires Everywhere
Kerry Washington and Reese Witherspoon are drawing inspiration from their own lives for their new show Little Fires Everywhere.
In a new interview with emmy magazine the two stars reveal that as they read and prepared for the new series, which was inspired by Celeste Ng's book of the same title, they began to realize they were channeling women they're very close to: their own mothers.
"I don't know why it never occurred to us until we were almost into production," Witherspoon tells the publication.
"I was like, 'I'm playing [my mother] Betty!'" Upon coming to the realization, they decided to lean into it, rather than seek new sources of inspiration....
