Reese Witherspoon

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

Reese Witherspoon (Gone Before Goodbye, The Morning Show, Big Little Lies) is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Academy Award-winning actor and producer. Reese joins the Armchair Expert to discuss growing up on a military base in Germany, being surprisingly not cautious when her kids want to chase adrenaline, and originally thinking that acting was a hobby to pay the bills. Reese and Dax talk about her theory on dating and the decline in romcoms, refusing to read during her audition for Election while in character as Tracy Flick, and her experience hosting the first SNL back after 9/11. Reese explains why women make movie stars of men, cowriting her novel Gone Before Goodbye with Harlan Coben, and how her edges have softened over the course of her life.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to Armchair Expert early and add free right now.
0:06.5	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:10.0	Or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcasts.
0:14.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert.
0:16.2	I'm Dax Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Padman.
0:18.7	Hi.
0:19.0	We are keeping the powerful gal train a chugging. It's so cool. What a fall we've had. It's true. We're going to throw Bree in there, too. Oh, great. Yes. Reese Witherspoon. I'm not going to say my German pronunciation. You'll have to listen to the fact check for that.
0:38.5	Reese is an award-winning actor, producer, and author.
0:42.0	Legally Blonde, The Morning Show.
0:44.2	Big Little Lies, Cruel Intentions, My Favorite Movie Ever, Election.
0:48.0	Sweet Home Alabama.
0:49.5	She's got a novel out right now that she co-wrote.
0:55.6	This girl can't stop.
0:56.6	Gone before goodbye.
0:58.9	And, yeah, she teamed up with bestselling author Harlan Coben, who as we discuss in here,
1:03.6	has got like 57 shows on Netflix.
1:05.3	He's like the most prolific person ever.
1:07.2	And the very fun part about the audio book is that she reads it.
1:11.9	And of course, she brings all of her talent to bear on it.
1:14.9	And it's wonderful.
1:16.1	I recommend it.
1:17.2	Please enjoy Reese Witherspoon.
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