Reese Witherspoon admits that she had no concept what currently being gay was even though increasing up in Nashville, Tennessee.

“No one particular spoke to me abut sexuality when I was a teen,” the 44-calendar year-old actress revealed in the course of a discussion with Regina King for Variety. “I didn’t realize what homosexuality was. My grandparents did not make clear it my moms and dads didn’t describe it.”

“I had to master [about it] from any individual I fulfilled on an audition in Los Angeles,” she included.

The Oscar winner reflected on her Southern upbringing when she appeared on Chelsea Handler’s display in 2006.

“I grew up, naturally, in the South and there is incredible, great connectivity and folks are loving and communitive,” Witherspoon explained. “But there is a tiny element of it, people today [that] use components of the Bible in order to express their intolerance and their detest and they manipulate it.”

At the moment, the actress and producer can be viewed in the Hulu series “Little Fires Everywhere you go.” She instructed Assortment the display “incorporated some of the conversation I experienced with my grandmother” immediately after Witherspoon’s transfer to LA into her character Elena Richardson’s traces.

“She mentioned: ‘Homosexuality is extremely scarce, Reese. That is not a detail that transpires quite typically.’ And we set it in the script,” Witherspoon said.