Reese Witherspoon turned the Nashville Film Festival red carpet into a family affair.
Witherspoon, 50, stepped out with her mother, Betty Reese, and lookalike kids Ava and Deacon Phillippe on Saturday, September 26, for the world premiere of Brother Save Us at the 57th Nashville Film Festival. (Witherspoon is also the mother of son Tennessee, 14, whom she shares with ex Jim Toth.)
The family was attending in celebration of the film, which stars Deacon, 22, as a farmer in a dystopian Midwest. In one image from Saturday, the mother-son duo placed their arms around each other while smiling for the camera.
Witherspoon opted for a strapless white corset top and black pants with black heels for the occasion, while Deacon donned a brown suit with a brown T-shirt. Ava, 27, selected a mini slip dress with diagonal stripes and Betty wore a black suit with a silk scarf around her neck.
“So proud of you @deaconphillippee!!” Witherspoon wrote via her Instagram Story on Saturday, reposting images of the mother-son duo from the event.
Days before the occasion, Deacon opened up about feeling a connection to the project due to his relationship with brother Tennessee.
“I just remember feeling surprised that someone could write exactly how I feel about my little brother,” Deacon told Variety earlier this month. “That depth of love in a script is just something you rarely get to see.”
He also got candid about following in the acting footsteps of Witherspoon and his father, Ryan Phillippe, who were married from 1999 to 2007.
“I acknowledge that I’m extremely lucky, but you know, at the same time, I hold myself to a standard,” Deacon said. “I’m not really looking to prove anything to anyone but myself to try to be the best version I can be, the best person I can be and work as hard as I can. A lot of people are going to assume things … All I can do is do my thing, and show that I want to work extremely, extremely hard.”
Deacon, who is set to star in the upcoming rom-com Better Than the Movies, went on to reflect on his favorite movie in the genre involving his mother.
“I would say, Sweet Home Alabama,” he said. “It’s very weird to watch your parents act. It’s hard. I remember when I was a kid, I watched one of my dad’s first movies, White Squall, and I was crying because they were bullying him in the movie.”
He continued, “But as you get older, there’s something magical about watching your parents young and at your age. I’m always in awe of their careers and all that they’ve done. That’s why I’m always leaning on them for advice, which is another thing I’m blessed to have.”
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