The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Women In Hollywood feature was released this week, which included their Power 100 list – Reese was of course featured within it! Read their brief interview with her below and find a scan from the magazine in our Gallery. The special collectors issue is on sale now and has Jennifer Lawrence on the cover.

The Hollywood Reporter’s 2017 Women in Entertainment Power 100

Meet the dynamos who rocked Hollywood by creating groundbreaking TV and ‘Wonder’-ful films, scoring piles of awards and historic paydays and making room for more women to rise as the industry’s dark side was brought to light (thanks in part to three pioneers on this list) in a watershed that has already changed entertainment — and the world. Take that, Harvey!

HOW THR PICKS THE POWER 100 This year’s list spotlights 16 standout industry leaders who dominated the 2017 entertainment and media landscape and groups the rest by their role in the Hollywood ecosystem — from the film forces (working mostly on the big screen) to the reps (agents, et al). Honorees are listed alphabetically within each category.

Reese Witherspoon
Actor, producer

CATEGORY Power Squad

Witherspoon scored big in 2017 with HBO’s acclaimed Big Little Lies (she starred and produced), for which she and fellow producer Nicole Kidman won an Emmy for outstanding limited series. “It showed me that audiences want to see a more accurate depiction of the female experience,” says Witherspoon, who launched her women-focused media brand Hello Sunshine in November 2016. She continues to buy book properties (including deals for A White Lie, with Zendaya attached, and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, in which Witherspoon would also star) and will hit the big screen in March in Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time. And in a deal that has Friends fans fawning, she recently sold a new series to Apple in which she’ll star opposite Jennifer Aniston.

Best thing to come out of the Weinstein scandal “Female solidarity.”

How I’ve helped women coming up in Hollywood “Call them, email them, work with them, and support them on social media.”

Hollywood woman I’d switch jobs with for a day Dana Walden

The three guests at my dream dinner party would be “Oprah, Mindy Kaling, Ava DuVernay and my mom.”

I wish men in Hollywood knew “What it feels like to be the only one in the room.”

Last show I binged Catastrophe, Westworld

TV or film character I most identify with “The squirrel in Ice Age constantly chasing an acorn.”

How I’d spend an extra day “Sleep!”

(THR)