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29th July 2015
12:15pm BST
"The script came along my way and it was right after I had finished Married and it was, you know, a blonde who was, in that first script dimwitted but ends up going to Harvard," she explained.
"It was just, I got scared. I got scared of kind of repeating myself."
The film went on to be a massive hit and catapulted Witherspoon to a glittering Hollywood career but Applegate, who has also starred in Anchorman and series Up All Night, doesn't begrudge her success.
"What a stupid move that was!"
"That's okay, you know what? Reese deserved that and she did a much better job than I ever could, so that's her life, that's her path."
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