New York, August 16 –Director Mira Nair was delighted that Reese Witherspoon was pregnant while filming Vanity Fair. “I’m not a fan of the very skinny 'Los Angelena' actress. That’s not my thing at all. I just love the luminosity that comes with pregnancy. I love the fleshiness. I love the sensuality, the womanliness that happens within you. And Reese Witherspoon was, for the first time, a full-blown woman on the screen in Vanity Fair.”

At the New York premiere, the brunette with Ryan Phillippe turned out to be Witherspoon, who went dark to play June Carter Cash in Walk the Line. Does it surprise her to see a brunette when she looks in the mirror? “No, not really, no. At first it did.” Witherspoon hasn’t changed her hair color in ten years, and said she’s a bit worried about what’ll happen to it when she goes back to being blonde. “If it turns green or something, I’ll just go with the green.”

Young British actress Romola Garai was thrilled to work with Reese on VF, since she already looked up to the star. “Election was a film that had a huge impact on me, you know, really changed the way I think about actresses.”