Widely Known Besties
Reba comes across as a genuinely warm and friendly person. Both George W. Bush and his father, George H. W. Bush, were friends of hers. She mentioned: “Senior Bush invited my husband [Narvel Blackstock] and I on a private cruise to the Greek islands years ago. We became very good friends, and that’s when the e-mail stuff started. We e-mail each other on our Treos all the time — nothing political, just passing jokes back and forth. He’s really into e-mail and so are his buddies”.
Shooting
Reba, being the quintessential country gal that she is, has a deep fascination with firearms and enjoys practicing her shooting skills. She revealed that she was completely gun-blind prior to her training for the role. She said: “I wanted to be able to look like I knew how to shoot a gun because we never did that when we were home in Oklahoma. When I found out that I was going to do a movie called ‘Buffalo Girls’ with Anjelica Huston several years before this, I went and learned how to skeet shoot and trap shoot.”