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[[File:Reese Witherspoon 2005.jpg|thumb|upright|Witherspoon attending the premiere of ''[[Walk the Line]]'' at the [[2005 Toronto International Film Festival]]]]

In late 2004, Witherspoon starred alongside [[Mark Ruffalo]] in the romantic comedy ''[[Just Likelike Heaven (2005 film)|Just Like Heaven]]''. Her character, Elizabeth Masterson, is an ambitious young doctor who is involved in a car accident on her way to a [[blind date]] and is left in a [[coma]]; her spirit returns to her old apartment where she later finds true love.<ref>{{cite news|first=Katie|last=Moten|url=http://www.rte.ie/arts/2005/1229/justlikeheaven.html |title=Just Like Heaven (PG) |website=[[Raidió Teilifís Éireann]]|date=December 29, 2005 |access-date=November 4, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023101757/http://www.rte.ie/arts/2005/1229/justlikeheaven.html |archive-date=October 23, 2007}}</ref> Next, she was cast as [[June Carter Cash]], the second wife of singer-songwriter [[Johnny Cash]] ([[Joaquin Phoenix]]), in [[James Mangold]]'s ''[[Walk the Line]]'' (2005). She never had the chance to meet Carter Cash, as Witherspoon was filming ''Vanity Fair'' at the time the singer died.<ref name="That's Reese" /> Witherspoon performed her own vocals in the film, and her songs had to be performed in front of a live audience; she was so worried about needing to perform that she asked her lawyer to terminate the film contract.<ref name="faces" /> "That was the most challenging part of the role," she later recalled. "I'd never sung professionally."<ref>{{cite news|title=Reese Witherspoon, live on Breakfast |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/4666180.stm |access-date=November 7, 2007 |date=February 1, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070106220629/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/4666180.stm |archive-date=January 6, 2007 }}</ref> Subsequently, she had to spend six months learning how to sing for the role, including from the help of vocal coach [[Roger Love]].<ref name="faces">{{cite news|title=Faces of the week |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6113620.stm |access-date=November 5, 2007 |date=November 3, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090213153356/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6113620.stm |archive-date=February 13, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Stars Learn to Sing for Roles ... or Do They? |date=February 8, 2006 |author=Donaldson-Evans, Catherine |publisher=Fox News Channel |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184170,00.html |access-date=November 5, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203032648/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C184170%2C00.html |archive-date=December 3, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-begin-again-vocal-coach-20140625-story.html|title=Vocal coach Roger Love helps put the sing in Hollywood performances|date=June 25, 2014|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=January 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230150820/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-begin-again-vocal-coach-20140625-story.html|archive-date=December 30, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Witherspoon's portrayal of Carter Cash was acclaimed by critics, with Roger Ebert stating that her performance added "boundless energy" to the film.<ref>{{cite news|first=Roger|last=Ebert|author-link=Roger Ebert|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051117/REVIEWS/51107006/1023 |title=Walk the Line |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|date=September 27, 2002 |access-date=December 1, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071212120132/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20051117%2FREVIEWS%2F51107006%2F1023 |archive-date=December 12, 2007 }}</ref> She won Best Actress at the [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Academy Awards]], [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama|Golden Globes]], [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|British Academy Film Awards]], and a [[Screen Actors Guild]] award for her performance.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=2006 Film Actress in a Leading Role {{!}} BAFTA Awards|url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/2006/film/actress-in-a-leading-role|website=awards.bafta.org|access-date=May 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428200124/http://awards.bafta.org/award/2006/film/actress-in-a-leading-role|archive-date=April 28, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="academy-award-bbc" /><ref name=":1" />

Witherspoon and Phoenix received a nomination for "collaborative video of the year" from the [[CMT Music Awards]].<ref name="academy-award-bbc">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4824306.stm |title=Movie stars up for country award |publisher=BBC |access-date=July 17, 2008 |date=March 20, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060521194812/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4824306.stm |archive-date=May 21, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cmt.com/microsites/cmt-music-awards/2006/nominees.jhtml |title=2006 Nominees |publisher=[[Country Music Television]] |access-date=July 17, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719195902/http://www.cmt.com/microsites/cmt-music-awards/2006/nominees.jhtml |archive-date=July 19, 2008 }}</ref> Witherspoon has expressed her passion for the film: "I really like in this film that it is realistic and portrays sort of a real marriage, a real relationship where there are forbidden thoughts and fallibility. And it is about compassion in the long haul, not just the short easy solutions to problems."<ref name="about.interview">{{cite web |first=Rebecca |last=Murray |url=http://movies.about.com/od/walktheline/a/walklinrw111405_2.htm |title=Reese Witherspoon Interview |publisher=[[About.com]] |date=July 31, 2017 |access-date=February 23, 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070820081417/http://movies.about.com/od/walktheline/a/walklinrw111405_2.htm |archive-date=August 20, 2007 }}</ref> She also stated that she believed Carter Cash was a woman ahead of her time: "I think the really remarkable thing about her character is that she did all of these things that we sort of see as normal things in the 1950s when it wasn't really acceptable for a woman to be married and divorced twice and have two different children by two different husbands and travel around in a car full of very famous musicians all by herself. She didn't try to comply to social convention, so I think that makes her a very modern woman."<ref name="about.interview" /> After the success of ''Walk the Line'', Witherspoon starred in the fantasy ''[[Penelope (2006 film)|Penelope]]'', as Annie, the best friend of Penelope ([[Christina Ricci]]), a girl who has a curse in her family. The film was produced by her company [[Type A Films]], and filming began in March 2006.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Exclusive: Penelope Set Pics |date=March 15, 2006 |magazine=Empire |url=https://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=18285 |access-date=December 31, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231234128/http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=18285 |archive-date=December 31, 2014 }}</ref> The film premiered at the [[2006 Toronto International Film Festival]],<ref name="faces" /><ref>{{cite news|first=Moira|last=Macdonald |url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/television/2003244619_toronto06.html|title=From Toronto: Let the film festival begin! |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]]|date=September 6, 2006 |access-date=December 12, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622034054/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/television/2003244619_toronto06.html |archive-date=June 22, 2011 }}</ref> but went unreleased until February 2008.<ref>{{cite web|first=Jennifer M.|last=Wood|url=https://www.moviemaker.com/archives/moviemaking/directing/articles-directing/mark-palansky-penelope-christina-ricci-20080229/|title=Deconstructing Penelope|work=[[MovieMaker]]|date=February 29, 2008|access-date=December 12, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224113310/https://www.moviemaker.com/archives/moviemaking/directing/articles-directing/mark-palansky-penelope-christina-ricci-20080229/|archive-date=February 24, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Gregg|last=Goldstein|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/penelope-slides-summit-149560|title=Penelope' slides to Summit| work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=September 6, 2007 |access-date=February 1, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110052325/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/penelope-slides-summit-149560 |archive-date=November 10, 2012}}</ref>