Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston are total trailblazers in their field. The highly bankable actresses have both dominated rom-com films and star in the hit Apple TV+ series, The Morning Show, which got renewed for Season 5 ahead of the Season 4 premiere. But the two stars admitted that when thinking about the roles women play in action movies, there’s still one thing the genre gets all wrong.
If you remember back in 2015 when Reese Witherspoon presented a speech at Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards, she called out a common trope in action scripts where the woman always asks the man, “What do we do now?!” Even a viral TikTok of the speech had a fan throw in a compilation of scenes where female characters have asked that question to their male counterparts, like in Love Actually, Jumanji, Erin Brockovich and more.
