American actress Reese Witherspoon, 32, learns the tea ceremony Wednesday during her visit to Japan as a goodwill ambassador to UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women). Witherspoon is visiting Japan this week to raise awareness of breast cancer and domestic violence. See related story in Entertainment section.
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Shumatsu_Samurai
Does she normally look like that?
Sarge
Funny face!
rycerz
Good looking woman with a bad expression on her face.
raymech1
lol
dany505
hope her face stays like that
some14some
Pls wait for the better expression after first sip of J-Tea.
Spidey
Is she making a mockery of the sacred tea serving ceremony!? Barbarian!!
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Mark_McCracken
Now she'll have a story to tell Leno.
urufuls
She looks really bothered by the two behind her giving her instructions for the ceremony.
cleo
Is it just me, or is that tea bowl floating in mid-air?
GW
obviously she cant be a very good actor, if she was shud mask her obvious horror considering the situation she was in LOL ha ha
Spidey
Where's Batman when you need him!
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romulus3
good. by the look of those to strict oba-sans behind her, I am sure some husbands are getting bashed at home. This has to stop!
gogogo
hahah she looks pissed off, probably all the "no no you're doing it wrong" from the Japanese behind.
PrinceskaNo1
She looks great in kimono but her hair is not appropriate for the kimono wearing, the hair should be up and the head made look big.
Ken Watanabe
Haha! Looks like she's making an elbow grease to stir up tea in a cup.
ataro
Oishiii desuka?
tashidelek
behind her its suks
NeoJamal
Past 30, a perfect event for her 'obasan' status
Taka313
To me, her face seems to say, "People study how to do this for years?"
Taka
greensatindress
I think they could have posted a much better picture than that. PrinceskaNo1's comment is right, the hair is all wrong for this situation. I studied tea ceremony briefly and I thought I was going to go out of my mind and all the sitting 'seiza' style killed my legs. I run like the plague whenever some obasan askes me, "do you like Japanese tea? Please come to my tea ceremony group....(so you can be the token gaijin decoration)"
SpanishEyez37
She should stick to what she is good at: mixing cake mix, that is what she looks like she is doing here.
What a goofy look.
rondh69
She has the look "Well, this isn't part of popular American culture (which I am part of), so therefore it is stupid..."
Nessie
I don't know about the teacup, Cleo, but if it's you floating, you should consider starting a cult.
stanoue
Hmm I bet they put this unflattering pic up to draw rude comments about how ugly Western women are compared to Japanese women again. Should fire the photographer if this is the best snap he got.
Nessie
Wearing a kimono, she puts the "duck" in "duck and cover".
Wottock_Hunt
Does anybody else think she looks like Stan Laurel?
I think she's doing a good enough job of expressing what many of us think when we hear how much these dopey old sows spend on this Emperor's New Clothes hobby.
usaexpat
terrible picture, what kind of goodwill is that face she's making?
VoXman
usaexpat
absolutely right! She's not doing much for US Women and USA image. This is why they say some things are too Japanese for non-Japanese to do correctly.Kijimuna
Caption: "Mmm, green tea is delicious!"
Nessie
Green tea is delicious. Now bring me my bloody whisky chaser!