Reese Witherspoon Said She Was So Scared To Film "Wild" She Had Panic Attacks And Had To Have Hypnosis

Elaborating on why she was so nervous to begin filming, Reese mentioned "the nudity, sexuality, and drug-use aspect, but also being alone on camera with no other actors."

"I hadn't ever been alone in scenes for days and days," Reese explained. "There were probably 25 days of the shoot where I had no other actor opposite me. It was just me and a camera and a backpack. I was like, 'Is this going to be so boring?'"

"It spoke to me so deeply about how we as women have to save ourselves," Reese said. "I thought it was radical that at the end of the film, she ends up with no family, no money, no job, no partner, and she's happy."

"I don't know if I'll ever work that hard again," she added. "But it changed me on a cellular level."

"I had a studio head say to me, 'Reese, we already have a movie with a woman this year. We can’t make another one,'" she said.

"They had no trepidation about admitting that to me," Reese went on. "It was just an accepted norm. That was astonishing to me, that they would say it so plainly and that it was something I was supposed to accept."