Legally Blonde is certainly one of many greatest motion pictures of the 2000s due to Reese Witherspoon’s hilarious efficiency as Elle Woods and all its quotable moments. Because it’s grow to be an iconic film, we’ve seen a sequel and musical adaptation, and now a prequel sequence is being made. With the search on for the teenager Elle Woods, Witherspoon has shared the origin of the upcoming streaming present, and Jenna Ortega really has one thing to do with it.
Reese Witherspoon has teamed up with Will Ferrell for a brand new comedy known as You’re Cordially Invited. Whereas selling the brand new film that followers can watch with an Amazon Prime subscription beginning Friday, she stated this in regards to the Elle TV present:
I noticed that Wednesday Addams present, the one, and I used to be like ‘Oh, she was in highschool’ and I beloved it. I watched each episode. I assumed it was wonderful, and I used to be like ‘We must always do Elle Woods in highschool’ as a result of I wished to see who she was earlier than faculty, earlier than regulation college and I began having all these concepts. And these wonderful writers got here up with an amazing pitch, and now Amazon is making the present, and it’s known as Elle. And now, I’ve to select a woman to play a younger me.
Netflix’s Wednesday was a large phenomenon when Season 1 got here out in 2022. To this present day, the sequence stays the most-watched debut for a Netflix unique TV present. When Reese Witherspoon was on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, she even shared that watching the sequence impressed her to think about Elle Woods in highschool and wish to construct a brand new challenge round it.
The sequence could have Elle Woods rocking pink and acing her courses within the Nineteen Nineties. Elle’s showrunner is Laura Kittrell, who produced over 30 episodes of Insecure, and Witherspoon is producing the sequence below her Whats up Sunshine manufacturing crew. At the moment, the present is making an attempt to forged the youthful Elle Woods. Witherspoon shared her response to watching audition tapes for the star of Elle with these phrases:
These ladies. I simply love all of them a lot, they usually’re doing such a superb job. And now it’s totally different as a result of we used to audition and we’d go right into a casting workplace, and now they should shoot, produce, and do all of the costumes. They should put collectively movies which are mainly like a mini-movie, however they’re killing it and now I’ve a very arduous choice.
Appears like there’s quite a lot of competitors on the market in terms of discovering the subsequent Elle Woods, and I wager they’d an analogous good downside whereas casting Wednesday too. After all, a lot of the web has turned to Witherspoon’s lookalike daughter when fan-casting, but it surely feels like she is absolutely making an attempt to exhaust each choice and goes to have a tough time selecting her successor.
The Huge Little Lies star stated she’s watched “so many” audition tapes already, and it’s been “so enjoyable” to see all of the younger expertise on the market. When the actress was up for Legally Blonde, she apparently had tight competitors along with her proficient friends like Charlize Theron, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alicia Silverstone, Katherine Heigl, Milla Jovovich, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Christina Applegate all reportedly in consideration for the function.
It’s powerful to think about who will observe Reese Witherspoon given her wonderful legacy as Elle Woods, but when anybody goes to seek out the subsequent Elle Woods, it’s her! And I am certain that whoever lands the function will probably be excellent, identical to how Jenna Ortega was the proper successor for Christina Ricci.