More even than the great insights she had, she gave me courage.” She was incredibly generous with her time and her experiences, which really helped inform my performance. She told me stories from her life in country music and so many things she knew about the Carter family and especially Johnny Cash. Parton reached out and offered to meet and help Witherspoon prepare for the role: “I was over the moon.”
“One of those generous people was Dolly,” Witherspoon says. Her father was a surgeon in Nashville, and when some of his patients heard Witherspoon was playing Johnny Cash’s wife, they sent videos and pictures to help her be authentic. Parton, to Witherspoon, is “the ultimate Southern icon.” She grew up telling teachers she wanted to be Parton when she grew up. Parton helped Witherspoon with her award-winning performance in Walk the Line. She declares, “If each of those women is an instrument, that scene is a symphony!”Ģ. Those few minutes manage to showcase the beauty of Southern female friendships and how important beauty shop politics are - and the scene even advances the plot,” Witherspoon says. You realize that scene must have taken three days to shoot - and was worth every second. “So much happens in that 11-minute scene (yes, I’ve timed it) that I am always in awe.
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