Here’s one way to make Reese Witherspoon sexier: Ask her to don some leather and bare some flesh.

At least that was the strategy behind This Means War, a spy thriller due in February that posits what would happen if two super-agents fell for the same woman.

The movie, whose trailer hits theaters Friday, features Chris Pine and Tom Hardy as spies who work well enough together — as long as they’re killing people, not courting them. The movie is directed by McG (Charlie’s Angels, Terminator Salvation). Chelsea Handler and Angela Bassett also star.

Pine plays an Ethan Hunt-style spy, an American bruiser who has more fight in him than finesse. Hardy is more of a James Bond agent: smooth, quick with a quip and heavy on the British dryness.

“They get to run around to exotic places, and everything is great until they meet a chick,” says McG, who adds that the film is in the vein of Mr. and Mrs. Smith and the Mission: Impossible and Bond movies.

McG says he is a longtime fan of Witherspoon, an Oscar winner for 2005′s Johnny Cash bio Walk the Line. But he says her provocative side has long been ignored.

When he offered the role, “I told her, ‘You’re America’s sweetheart,’” McG says. “‘Women love you. Men … like you. I want men to covet you.’ She took a deep breath and said, ‘Go for it.’”

That meant dressing her in some tight-fitting spy get-ups and having her lip-wrestle covert operatives.

“Those are really her legs, those are really her abs,” McG says. “That’s her making out with Chris Pine and Tom Hardy.”

McG says that while he has always considered Witherspoon a beauty, the two had to “establish trust” before she agreed to lose any garments.

“I love strong female characters, and she had seen Charlie’s Angels,” he says. “Between her physical readiness and the manner we photographed her, you get a sexy takeaway.

“The audience is the beneficiary.”

McG is catching Pine and Hardy in steep ascent. Pine starred in last year’s hit Unstoppable, and Hardy appears in next summer’s Batman installment The Dark Knight Rises. McG expects that their chemistry — and one of the movie’s messages — will lure women, who are not always the biggest spy fans.

“Men,” McG says, “will disintegrate into boys when a woman is involved.”

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Actress Reese Witherspoon was taken to a hospital on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 after being hit by a car in Santa Monica, CA. Witherspoon was jogging when she was hit by the vehicle. The driver was an 84-year-old woman who was cited for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.

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The elderly driver who struck Reese Witherspoon on Wednesday will not face charges.

According to Us Magazine, it was Witherspoon’s decision to not press charges, even though the driver, an 84 year-old woman, was caught not yielding to a pedestrian. A representative told the magazine that she was “…not seriously injured and is resting comfortably at home.” Witherspoon’s only injury was a cut to her forehead. She considers the incident an accident and sees no point in pressing the charges, since usually the driver “…would receive a fine and a point on her driving license as it is considered a moving violation,” added the representative.

E! News reports that Santa Monica Police Department ordered the woman to take a full driver’s reevaluation exam within 30 days. The incident is not expected to put a hold on Witherspoon’s plans. She is set to star with Matthew McConaughey in Mud and This Means War with Tom Hardy.

When the royal couple came to California during their North American tour earlier this summer, Kate Middleton had the opportunity to meet many Hollywood celebrities. Who would have guessed that the Duchess of Cambridge—a princess—would be nervous about meeting them? Certainly not Reese Witherspoon!

Reese was “petrified” about meeting the princess, which is also pretty funny—she’s an actress for goodness sake! Reese should be used to talking with people and dealing with nerves.

Reese relaxed a bit once Kate Middleton admitted to being a longtime fan of Witherspoon’s work.

A source told National Enquirer: “It nearly left Reese speechless. Here she was, wondering exactly how you speak to a princess – and here was Kate, practically intimidated at meeting her!”

When you stop to think about it though, even though Kate Middleton is a princess and Reese Witherspoon is a Hollywood actress—both high profile positions—deep down inside they are just normal young women who have the same struggles and fears as every other young woman in the world.

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Check out the BTS video for Reese’s Lindex fall 2011 shoot. I added screencaps to the gallery.

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- Commercials from 2011 > Lindex Fall 2011 American Denim line BTS

Reese Witherspoon is the new face of Swedish high street brand Lindex this fall. She is modelling the “California Denim” campaign which featuers a lot of bootcut jeans, ponchos and hats.  The Swedish clothier has tapped Reese for their Fall 2011 campaign modelling the American Denim collection-a retro ’70′s California style that she pulls off well.

Click the link below to see a few pics from the shoot

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- Photoshoots from 2011 > Set 001