Director
Mira
Nair
has
revealed
that
before
she
started
shooting
for
her
movie
Vanity
Fair,
she
asked
actress
Reese
Witherspoon,
who
plays
the
lead
role
of
Becky
in
the
movie,
to
get
pregnant
so
that
she
would
get
a
fuller
figure.
Vanity
Fair
is
the
story
of
Becky
Sharp,
a
poor
girl
growing
up
in
1840's
London
who
defies
her
poverty-stricken
background
and
ascends
the
social
ladder
alongside
her
best
friend,
Amelia.
Written
by
William
Thackeray,
the
novel
was
made
into
a
film
by
Mira
Nair,
director
of
the
award
winning
Monsoon
Wedding.
The
critically
acclaimed
director
Nair
said
that
she
had
gone
for
dinner
to
Witherspoon's
house
before
the
movie
started
filming
and
she
asked
Witherspoon's
actor
husband,
Ryan
Philippe,
to
'knock
her
up.'
"I
am
not
a
fan
of
underfed
Los
Angeles
actresses
so
the
year
before
we
began
filming,
I
had
dinner
at
her
home
and
told
her
husband
to
knock
her
up...
and
he
did," Nair
said.
"It
had
a
wonderful
effect
on
her
luminosity
and
womanliness.
In
those
days
the
dresses
had
plunging
necklines.
It
was
the
bosom
that
I
wanted
and
I
certainly
got
that,"
she
added.