To understand that feeling better, Witherspoon asked Mindy Kaling, her co-star in A Wrinkle in Time, about her own experiences.
Witherspoon also expresses her frustrations that, with as many steps forward we may take, the gender imbalance still remains so stark.
She recalls, “When I asked Mindy Kaling, ‘Don’t you ever get exhausted by always having to create your own roles?’ she said, ‘Reese, I’ve never had anything that I didn’t create for myself.'”