【通信講座】リスニング力を鍛える週１トレーニング（第４回解説）：How Reese Witherspoon Became…

【通信講座】リスニング力を鍛える週１トレーニング（第4回目解説）：How Reese Witherspoon Became The World’s Richest Actress

動画のでリスニングトレーニングの第4回目のテーマは「リーズ・ウィザースプーンが世界で最も裕福な女優になった」というお話でした。サマリの例は以下のとおりです。

Reese Witherspoon, the academy award-winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur is the world’s richest actress with an estimated net worth of 400 million dollars. She was born in Louisiana and wanted to be America’s first female president.
Reese started acting as a young teen in some moves and TV series. The movie Legally Blond made her a very big deal and she eventually got Oscar. However, she got tired of playing in a cheesy love triangle and started her own production. Her project called “Hello Sunshine” made her a great success from book club to movie creation and brought her big fortune.

アカデミー賞女優、プロデューサー、企業家であるリース・ウィザースプーンは、推定純資産が4億ドルという世界で最も裕福な女優です。彼女はルイジアナ州出身で、子供の頃の夢はアメリカ初の女性大統領になることでした。リースは10代の頃から、映画やテレビシリーズで演技を始めました。映画『キューティブロンド』は彼女を一躍有名にし、最終的にはオスカーを獲得しました。しかし、安っぽい三角関係の演技に飽き足らず、自分のプロダクションを立ち上げました。ハロー・サンシャイン」という企画で、読書会から映画制作まで大成功を収め、大きな財産を手にすることになりました。

Reese Witherspoon is (1. ____  _____ ______ ______ )　with an estimated net worth of 400 million dollars.

(Legally Blonde scene: what, like it’s hard?)

The academy award-winning actress, producer and entrepreneur was born in Louisiana and raised in Tennessee.
As a kid, Reese loved watching 90210.  But she wasn’t dreaming about becoming an actress.  She  (２. ____  _____ ______ )　America’s first female president.

Eventually, she did end up president, but it wasn’t exactly of the United States. 

Reese got into acting as a young teen playing the role of “Dani” in the 1991 film, the man in the moon.
But audience really got to see the depth of her acting range when she was cast in “Cruel Intentions”. 
From there, Reese (３. ____  _____ ______ ______ )　in movies and would take on the occasional TV cameo.

(Friends scene: Hi, Is Rachel here? I’m her sister.)

Then, Legally Blond happened and Reese Witherspoon was suddenly  (４. ____  _____ ______ ______ )　.
Every major studio was calling. 

(and the Oscar goes to … Reese Witherspoon, “Walk the line”)

She was in one very dramatic love triangle after another and was growing increasingly (５. ______ ______ )　the roles being offered to her.
She went from our celebrity 100 list to our overpaid actors list.  She channeled her frustration  (６. _________ _____　__________ )　 with the lack of women-led stories in Hollywood into creating her own company, Pacific Standard would go on to produce “Wild” and “Gone Girl” with Reese at the helm, but there were no 　(７. _________ _____　__________ )　.

In 2016, her production efforts morphed into “Hello Sunshine” which produce “Big Little Lies”, “The Morning Show” and Little Fires Everywhere”. Witherspoon’s media empire soon encompassed Reese’s book club with the majority of books becoming best sellers.  The club 　(8. _________ _____ ) a sort of pipeline for future projects, meaning books already have a built-in audience even before they’re adapted for the screen.

It was recently announced that a Blackstone backed media company purchasing a　(９. _________ _____ ) in Hello Sunshine.
The deal values of Hello Sunshine at 900 million dollars.  Reese will collect an estimated 120 million dollars and still retain about 18% ownership stake.  As for the rest of Reese’s fortune, it’s post tax earnings from her 30-year long career as a successful actress and producer.

If you’ve seen her tik-tok recently, you know (10. _____ _______ _____ ) on and off set. and who knows maybe we’ll see her on another list.

１．the world’s richest actress　世界で最も裕福な女優
２．wanted to be　なりたかった
３．went on to star　出演した
４．a very big deal　大女優　（一大事という意味もあります）
５．tired  of　飽きる
６．channeled her frustration〜　フラストレーションを〜に向かわせる
７．cheesy love triangles　安っぽい三角関係
８．serves as　〜としての役割を担う
９．majority stake 過半数の株式
１０．she’s keeping busy 彼女は忙しくする

今回の課題はいかがでしたでしょうか。ビジネス誌ForbesのYouTubeチャンネルから動画を選んでみました。解説動画なのでわかりやすかったと思います。知らない表現や単語はぜひメモして覚えるようにしてみてくださいね。

キューティ・ブロンド（Legally Blond)　のあとラブコメばかり出ていた彼女が突然「私に出会うまでの１６００キロ（ワイルド）」を発表して驚いたのを思い出しました。Hello Sunshineのプロジェクトで発表している作品も女性の生き方をテーマにしたものばかりで興味深いです。いつか、本当に大統領に立候補する日が来るかもしれませんね。