Reese Witherspoon's loaded
The daily variety reports $15 million movie.

Reese Witherspoon will pocket a whopping $15 million to star in a sequel to her fair-haired 2001 comedy hit Legally Blonde, according to Daily Variety. The hefty payday moves Witherspoon into the upper tax bracket for actresses, where she joins the fair-tressed likes of Cameron Diaz ($15 mil for The Sweetest Thing, $20 mil-plus for Charlie's Angels 2), Meg Ryan ($15 mil for Proof of Life) and, token brunette Sandra Bullock ($15 mil for Murder by Numbers). Witherspoon isn't quite Julia Roberts ($20 mil, when she of the hard-to-pin-down hair color makes would-be crowd-pleasers like Erin Brockovich and The Mexican), but who is?

Posted: 9/6/2002
Author: Chris Worfolk
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