Reese Witherspoon had a wierd inspiration behind making the prequel to her hit movie collection Legally Blonde. In keeping with the actress, Jenna Ortega’s Netflix present Wednesday — which is a whole distinction to the style of Legally Blonde — had one thing to do with the concept.
On January 29, the Huge Little Lies actress appeared on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon to advertise her upcoming movie You are Cordially Invited. She additionally teased the extremely anticipated Legally Blonde prequel collection and revealed what gave her the concept to convey a youthful model of her iconic character, Elle Woods.
“It was sort of this concept … I noticed that Wednesday Addams present, , and I used to be like, ‘Oh!'” Witherspoon informed host Jimmy Fallon. She beloved the truth that within the Adams Household spin-off collection, Wednesday was proven as a highschool lady attempting to navigate her powers.
“I assumed it was superb. And I used to be like, ‘We must always do Elle Woods in highschool!'” she revealed and that is precisely what the plot of the Legally Blonde spin-off is. The Morning Present actress admitted that after she had the concept, she grew curious to discover it.
Her character, Elle Woods, is outlined by the point she spent as an lawyer and learning at a legislation faculty. Nevertheless, Witherspoon needed to discover the character earlier than she was pulled into the authorized world, and what higher place than highschool to do this?
She revealed {that a} bunch of inventive writers bought on board and after a number of pitches, the present was picked by Amazon Prime and is presently within the making utilizing Elle because the working title. As for the actress, she is without doubt one of the producers of the present.
Chatting with Individuals journal earlier this month, the Emmy nominee admitted that the method of casting a youthful model of herself has been a “journey.” She revealed that auditioning younger ladies “full of enthusiasm and pleasure” was thrilling.