Reese Witherspoon boss of her own movie

Washington (ANI): 'Legally Blonde' star Reese Witherspoon is now legally a producer, and her first movie as a movie boss 'Penelope' will be hitting theatres soon. The offbeat fable, 'Penelope', will star Atonement's James McAvoy and Christina Ricci as the rich girl of the title who is cursed with a pig nose as she awaits the love of a nobleman.

The Oscar-winning Walk the Line Best Actress has partnered with Jennifer Simpson in the production company Type A Films for her production venture. "This was the first film that we found the script, found the director and did all the heavy lifting," People quoted Witherspoon, as telling the Associated Press. Penelope, which the 31-year-old star helped develop, cast, edit, drew her attention because of its very powerful female character.

"It had a really great female character who was strong, ambitious, but definitely had a journey to go through to get to the place where she would find herself," she said. Witherspoon also plays a supporting role in the movie portraying Annie, a free spirit who shows London to Penelope and helps restore her self-esteem. The star actually turned down the original idea of taking the lead herself.

"It's very freeing to play a supporting character. Those are the kind of parts I came up playing, so it was kind of nice to return to that," she said. When asked about how was it like being a producer, she said: "I got to learn a lot, things I don't normally get to touch."