Check out this funny reportage from E! Online:

In a movie, people. She wants to shoot someone…in a movie.

See, the lack of strong roles for women in Hollywood was just one of the subjects that got Reese Witherspoon all revved up when talking to us this weekend about the movie she produced and appears in, Penelope.

It’s a darling fairy tale about a girl (Christina Ricci) with a pig nose. And Reese wanted Christina from the get-go—the two grew up together on the audition circuit. Aw! (And just a quick side note: Things she did not discuss with us include (a) the passing of Heath Ledger and (b) the man she is often photographed with, Jake Gyllenhaal.)

So, oh well, back to shooting people.

Here’s what she said about shoot-’em-up movies wherein the leading man gets to take down the bad guy. “Why does the guy get to shoot him? I want the girl to shoot him!” she said, laughing intermittently. “I love watching Angelina Jolie kick ass in Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and I can’t wait to see her in Wanted. I would love to shoot someone. In the knee cap or something, just to stop them!”

I’m all for it. You listen to this woman talk and think to yourself, she was Tracy Flick in Election and Elle Woods in Legally Blonde. She can do anything.

What do you think? Is grabbin’ a gun such a good move for our blond friend, or is it a wrong turn? Sound off in Comments!