The actress was arrested in 2013 and charged with disorderly conduct after an exchange with police in which she told an officer, “OK, you're about to find out who I am.” She was fined and later apologised for being “disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job.”

Reese has been tipped for an Oscar nod for Wild, out in the UK in January, which sees her character embark on the 1,100-mile Pacific Crest Trail, and involves sex scenes and depictions of drug use, as well as physically-demanding stunts.

She previously said of the filming: “The sex scenes were the hardest thing for me to do. I've never had to do anything like that in my entire life. I had to do all the parts of the movie, the parts that made me feel uncomfortable too, because it is about emotional honesty.”

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