Reese Witherspoon reveals why she quit Brave

Can Reese Witherspoon do a Scottish accent? Apparently not.

During an appearance on ITV’s Lorraine (via South West News Service), the 40-year-old Hollywood actress revealed that her Scottish accent is so bad, that it forced her to drop out of a movie. No prizes for guessing which one.

“Scottish is really… I was supposed to… I don’t want to talk about it,” she stuttered. “I tried to do a Scottish accent once. It was bad. I had to quit the movie. It’s not my finest moment. I don’t want to talk about it anymore.”

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It’s not known for certain which film she was talking about.

But it was ‘Brave’. It was definitely ‘Brave’.

Back before the hit Disney animated film exploded onto screens across the world, Reese Witherspoon was originally set to voice the main character – Princess Merida. But it seems that her Scottish accent wasn’t good enough for a film set entirely in the Scottish Highlands.

At the time, ‘Brave’ co-director gave the following statement:

“We did have Reese Witherspoon when we started the project and she was on for quite some time,” he said. “She was getting her Scottish accent down, she was working very hard and it was sounding great but as we were continuing with the movie she had other movies lining up, so unfortunately we were unable to continue with her and had to get a replacement.”

Other movies lining up?

Yeah… it seems that her dodgy Scottish accent was the real reason she ditched the role. Still, at least they managed to pull it all together in the end, with Scottish actress Kelly MacDonald landing the coveted role.

But that’s not quite the end of it…

Ironically, Reese Witherspoon’s family tree can be traced directly back to Scotland.

Apparently, she’s a descendent of Scottish-born John Witherspoon, a signatory on the United States Declaration of Independence. One of the founding fathers of the United States, he was born in Gifford, East Lothian in 1723 and emigrated to the United States in 1768. He was the only clergyman and college principal to sign the declaration.

And presumably, he wouldn’t be too pleased about his descendant’s accent.

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