![]() ![]() With seeming happiness, Elena shuffles between book clubs, PTA events, and her job as a part-time journalist. She prides herself on tolerance, both her suburb’s and her own-as she takes pains to point out, her eldest daughter has an African-American boyfriend. ![]() ![]() In Hulu’s new limited series, Little Fires Everywhere, adapted from Celeste Ng’s book of the same name, Witherspoon once again returns to this fertile ground as Elena Richardson.Įlena is the queen bee of Shaker Heights: the woman who ensures the neighbor’s grass prescribes to regulations, and the mother who organizes her children’s schedules in a color-coded calendar. She specializes in women whose unbridled ambition elicits pity and disgust, support and unease. At least, this is the persona Witherspoon has cultivated on screen.Įver since she portrayed aspiring student body president Tracy Flick in Election (1999), Witherspoon has embraced the role of problem solver: characters with defined goals and an even greater commitment to achieve said goals. Reese Witherspoon is a woman with the self-appointed mission to ‘fix’-a mission that is occasionally well-intentioned, occasionally self-serving, and difficult to discern when the two diverge. ![]()
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