What, prefer it’s onerous? Selma Blair is shutting down rumors that Legally Blonde nearly ended with herself and Reese Witherspoon using off into the sundown — however that doesn’t imply she wouldn’t have been totally on board.
“I like that concept! What enjoyable. … I don’t do not forget that, possibly it was,” the Merciless Intentions star, 50, stated throughout a Thursday, July 12, episode of the “Shut Up Evan” podcast. “I’m mates with Karen [McCullah] and [Kristen “Kiwi” Smith] that wrote it. However I’d’ve beloved that a lot. Let’s go along with that. I feel it’s a lot enjoyable.”
Whereas Blair might not recall her character, Vivian Kensington, sparking a romance with 46-year-old Witherspoon’s Elle Woods, the Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane alum did reveal a special means the 2001 comedy nearly wrapped up.
“There was an ending that Vivian was blonde, and I did [go blonde],” the After actress revealed. “I’ve the Polaroids. I appeared similar to Faye Dunaway in Bonnie and Clyde. The beret was on and the blonde.”
Blair added that the movie in the end selected to scrap the thought as a result of it “simply wasn’t as sturdy as what it become,” noting that she did look “attractive” sporting the golden locks.
The Michigan native’s feedback come after Jessica Cauffiel, who performed Margot within the cult basic, instructed The New York Occasions in the course of the twentieth anniversary oral historical past in 2021 that the movie was initially supposed to finish with Vivian and Elle “in Hawaii consuming margaritas and holding palms.”
“The insinuation was both they have been finest mates or they’d gotten collectively romantically,” Cauffiel, 46, added.
Witherspoon, for her half, supported Cauffiel’s claims. “It’s true…” the Little Fires All over the place star wrote by way of Twitter on the time.
Throughout her look, Blair expressed the need to “not less than make a cameo” within the franchise’s third installment, Legally Blonde 3, which might be penned by Mindy Kaling. “I’m hoping, hoping that that legacy can proceed, as a result of discuss concerning the good issues in life. That film is likely one of the good issues in life. It’s a spotlight. I actually really feel like, ‘Yeah, my obit’s gonna look okay,’” the Sweetest Factor star gushed.
Legally Blonde, which was filmed in 2000, adopted Elle Woods’ dedication to win again her boyfriend Warner Huntington III (Matthew Davis) by getting admitted into Harvard Legislation Faculty alongside him. The comedy’s success spawned the sequel Legally Blonde 2: Purple, White & Blonde in 2003, a direct-to-DVD spinoff in 2009 referred to as Legally Blondes and the hit Broadway manufacturing Legally Blonde: The Musical, which launched in 2007.
