Reese Witherspoon’s son has a special role in her newest film.
The actress, 48, spoke with Buzzfeed UK about her new film You’re Cordially Invited and shared that her younger son Tennessee, 12, has a small role in the movie. Asked why she didn’t include her kids in the film, Witherspoon noted that she actually did put one of them in the movie.
“One of my kids is in the movie,” Witherspoon revealed. “He’s a little dude. He’s in a tiny scene. That’s an Easter egg!”
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Although Tennessee is Witherspoon’s only kid who appears on screen in the movie, her son Deacon, 21, helped create a song that is featured in the film.
Deacon and Witherspoon’s costar Will Ferrell’s son Magnus collaborated on the song “Slow Down” together, and Magnus, 20, told PEOPLE at the New York City premiere of the movie that the song was inspired after he was “in a rut.”
Magnus said that while his dad was in the middle of filming, he and his roommate at USC “were kind of in a rut, and wanted to make something weird and out-of-the-box.”
The pair then experimented and made a “really weird-sounding, super-fast, kind of Latin” song, he told PEOPLE, adding that they shelved it until Magnus decided to send it to his dad.
“Then he was like, ‘Hey, we’re filming but they don’t have this song yet in this party scene. I showed them yours and they’d love to use it,’ ” Magnus recalled. “I was like, ‘Yeah, please. Let’s do it!’ Just super fortunate to actually be a part of something.”
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For the most part, however, Witherspoon’s three kids — sons Deacon and Tennessee as well as daughter Ava, 25 — “actively avoid” her work.
“My children actively avoid my work,” Witherspoon recently told E! News. “I literally had my son tell me last night that he did not know I made a living being funny. He was like, ‘I just didn’t realize. You’re funny at home — sort of.'”
The star went on to say that after one of her sons saw her new movie with Ferrell, he was surprised that the audience was laughing.
“When he sat through the movie, he was like, ‘People were laughing at your stuff,’ ” she remembered. “I was like, ‘Yeah.'”
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