Reese Witherspoon admits visiting a Sudanese refugee camp in Kenya had a huge impact on her.
The 38-year-old actress plays a job counsellor helping refugees settle into America in her new movie ‘Inherent Vice,’ and decided to make the "emotional" trip with her daughter Ava, 15.
She said: "I didn’t want to just do the part in Atlanta and go home to my life. I wanted to see what that experience was like. It was very emotional, seeing over 250,000 people displaced, sleeping on concrete slabs, kids who were sick. I took my teenage daughter and she didn’t say a word the whole day. I think it’s going to affect her for a long time, as it will me.
"Kids nowadays have all this technology that disconnects them. I think travel is the antidote to that. As much of the world as you can show them is great."
The blonde beauty feels her career is firmly back on track after a string of flops in recent years.
Speaking to US OK! magazine, she added: "For a few years, I was a little but lost as an artist, not making choices I was ultimately very happy with. I wanted to get back to playing interesting, dynamic characters."
Reese Witherspoon: Refugee camp had big impact
