Reese Witherspoon Plays the Perfect Holiday Hostess for Crate & Barrel

The Oscar winner's new ads are part of a larger partnership

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Reese Witherspoon will not serve you mediocre cranberry sauce or immolate you while garnishing cocktails with flamed orange peels.

She doesn’t roll like that.

The actress-producer takes her holiday entertaining seriously enough to whip up 37 versions of the same side dish and keep a fire extinguisher handy, in case her parlor trick goes awry while practicing. Preparation is everything, after all.

Witherspoon, 41, and her home-and-hearth prowess star in a new Crate & Barrel campaign, launching Tuesday on digital and social media with TV spots following at the end of the month.

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