Last year, Reese Witherspoon pretty much broke the internet when she announced Legally Blonde 3 was officially happening. The good news kept on coming, too, when it was announced that Mindy Kaling would be writing the script.
Little is known about the third Legally Blonde installment, including which characters from the first two movies will be returning—other than Elle Woods, that is. Details about the movie are so under wraps that Luke Wilson, who played Witherspoon's on-screen love interest Emmett Richmond—hasn't been asked back yet.
“Of course [I’d do it],” Wilson told Us Weekly about being asked to revive his Legally Blonde character. “I don’t know anything other than the usual man on the street. And that’s really the truth. I’ve heard they’re writing it and trying to put it together, but they’re keeping it pretty firmly under wraps.”
Wilson had nothing but nice things to say about his experience on the first two films, as well as working with Witherspoon. “I loved working with Reese, and definitely, that’s one of those movies where I never had that happen before to such a degree where when it came out, I’d go back to Texas and there would be little squadrons of girls who would come up at that age, like, 8 to 12 and 14, and they would have all these questions about Elle. They’d ask where she was and what she was doing and was she as great as she seemed,” he shared.
“It’s just a good feeling," Wilson continued. "It’s one thing to make a movie people like, it’s another thing to make a movie that does well, but to have one that gets legs because of how people feel about it, that is a great feeling. To have a movie make a jump to generations.”
Wilson also spoke about the recent cast reunion, which he called "really fun." He also reminisced about reading the script for the first time. "I just thought, ‘OK, I can tell what this is. It’s kind of a romantic comedy, it’s funny and it’s from that kind of era in the ‘90s when it came out.’ And then seeing the character Reese was doing, I was like, ‘This is a Saturday Night Live character. Like, she’s really committed to this,'" he said. "To me, it seemed like you can sometimes try an idea and people will be like, ‘Well, that’s funny, but it’s a little over the top.’ I was like, ‘Wow, she’s really going for it. This is like a Nicolas Cage type of commitment to an out-there character.’”
We'll have to keep our fingers crossed we see more of Emmett Richmond in Legally Blonde 3.
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