Reese Witherspoon Dropped A Bombshell About Having ‘No Control’ Over Intimate Scene With Mark Wahlberg At Age 19

Reese Witherspoon Reflects On Discomfort While Shooting Intimate Fear Scenes

Witherspoon also told the outlet that she requested a stunt double for the below-the-waist scenes while filming the teen flick. "It wasn’t explicit in the script that that’s what was going to happen, so that was something that I think the director thought of on his own and then asked me on set if I would do it, and I said no," the Big Little Lies alum said. She added: "It wasn’t a particularly great experience."

"I’m certainly not traumatized or anything by it, but it was formative," the Draper James founder said when looking back. The Legally Blonde star continued: "It made me understand where my place was in the pecking order of filmmaking."

The mom of three continued: "I think it’s another one of those stories that made me want to be an agent for change and someone who maybe can be in a better leadership position to tell stories from a female perspective instead of from the male gaze."

While starring in countless blockbusters and hit television shows over the past two decades, Witherspoon also notably founded production company Pacific Standard (now part of Hello Sunshine) in 2012.

Since then, the actress and author has produced many projects with "strong" female lead characters, and as she revealed in her most recent interview, she isn't stopping anytime soon!