It was a perfect day for Legally Blonde fans as the cast of the beloved 2001 comedy reunited for the 25th anniversary while passing the franchise down to the next generation.<\/p>\n
On Saturday at Hall Des Lumieres in New York City, Reese Witherspoon got teary-eyed as she praised Lexi Minetree\u2019s \u201cbeautiful heart\u201d while recalling her audition for Elle Woods in Prime Video\u2019s prequel series Elle, premiering July 1 on the streamer.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI have to tell you, When I saw Lexi Minetree in her video, it stopped me, it took my breath away. She understood\u2014I\u2019m gonna cry again\u2014she\u2019s just such an incredible person,\u201d she said during a panel moderated by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers. \u201cShe had gone into her backyard with her mom and recreated the whole Harvard admissions video. She hadn\u2019t just filmed a tape, she was like, \u2018I don\u2019t even know if I\u2019m going to get this part, but I\u2019m going to put that extra effort into this.\u2019 She had the sparkly bikinis. She did the little walk and the guy touched her butt, and she\u2019s like, \u2018I object!\u2019 And there was something divine about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I said, \u2018OK, well she\u2019s obviously incredible, but I wanna talk to her.\u2019 So we did a Zoom, and she didn\u2019t know she basically already had the job. But I was like, \u2018I want you to understand the responsibility of what this means to people. Little girls are gonna come up to you and it\u2019s like a massive responsibility.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Witherspoon added, \u201cSo, I wanna say on top of being this incredibly disciplined, talented young woman, she has such a beautiful heart. And she told me things about her life and her family and things that just showed me her character, and I just could not be more proud to pass the baton or the pink torch to Lexi Minetree as the new Elle Woods. I love you so much. You have no idea. I\u2019m just so proud of you.\u201d<\/p>\n
At Elle World, the Oscar winner reunited with co-stars Jennifer Coolidge, Ali Larter, Selma Blair, Victor Garber and Matthew Davis, as well as musicians Hoku and Vanessa Carlton, whose songs \u201cPerfect Day\u201d and \u201cA Thousand Miles\u201d are featured on the original movie\u2019s soundtrack.<\/p>\n
The event also featured Minetree and her co-stars from the Prime Video series, including Zac Looker, Jacob Moskovitz, Chandler Kinney, Gabrielle Policano, Tom Everett Scott and June Diane Raphael, plus executive producer Lauren Neustadter.<\/p>\n
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