The 2002 rom-com “Sweet Home Alabama” starred Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Melanie Lynskey and more.
Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen, Mary Kay Place, Fred Ward, Jean Smart and Ethan Embry.
In one famous scene, Witherspoon’s Melanie Smooter exclaimed “you have a baby, in a bar!” when she reunites with former high school pal Lurlynn, but Lynskey clarified that Ford and Lowenthal weren’t the baby actors in that particular montage.Lynskey went on to become a household name for her work in “Yellowjackets” and several other projects.
“I love Reese. I’m so impressed by her as a human, being, the work that she does as an advocate for children, the person she is, the way she is uplifting other women and making women’s stories told, her production company [Hello Sunshine] is just incredible,” she continued. “The books she’s optioning. I’m just like, I — already at that point in time, 20 years ago — I was like, ‘This is a woman to watch.
Years later, Lynskey would even repeat her bar scene from the film after wrapping the Justin Long-directed comedy, “Lady of the Manor.” “I think I brought my daughter to a bar,” she said of her daughter, whom she shares with husband Jason Ritter. “We had this sort of crew party through filming, and it was at a bar. Yeah, she was there at the bar!”
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