If you are anything like me, then you have watched and re-watched Legally Blonde more times than you can count. It was an iconic part of the early 2000s that I'm not sure any of us could have lived without!
But as well as we may think we know the movie, there are a lot more BTS secrets to be unpacked!
Believe it or not, the casting director's first choice for the role was Tori Spelling followed by Christina Applegate. After both actresses turned down the part, Katherine Heigl, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alicia Silverstone, and Charlize Theron were next in line.
Then Reese.
"They thought I was a shrew," Reese told the Hollywood Reporter.
"My manager finally called and said, 'You've got to go meet with the studio head because he will not approve you. He thinks you really are your character from Election and that you're repellent.' And then I was told to dress sexy."
"I was worried that I wasn't getting enough sleep because my daughter Ava was sick quite often during the shoot and there were a lot of days when I didn't think I could pull it off," she said of balancing work and being a new mom.
"And then you throw in the fact that I'm supposed to be playing a very bubbly and energetic California preppy who is smiling all the time! I kept thinking, "I'm going to kill myself! I'm never going to make it!'"
The bend-and-snap scene that we all know and love is merely a glimpse of what the scene was initially going to be.
"I have a feeling I will be doing the bend-and-snap until I am 95," Reese said.
"With a sad heart, I have to let all the #LegallyBlonde fans know that Bruiser Woods (also known as Moonie) passed away yesterday. He was a sweet little Chihuahua who was very loved. I will never forget all the days we spent together ... I'm sure his tail is wagging in the sky. Sending love to his trainer, the wonderful @tailsticks #RIPBruiser 💔," Reese wrote on Instagram after Moonie's passing.
Prior to landing the role of Elle, Reese had never so much as stepped foot in a sorority house.
But to help her act out the role as authentically as possible, she decided to spend some time in a real-life sorority house.
What an incredible way to support her friend's business, plus the dress is stunning. It became one of the most iconic outfits of the movies.
A win-win!
"It's definitely been a jump for me," she said in an interview shortly after the film was released.
"I'm not necessarily like — jump around and [be] perky and bubbly all the time."
"And trying to convey that sort of lightness all the time is hard work."
During Elle's Law School admission video, her sorority, Delta Nu, voted on changing their toilet paper brand from Charmin to a generic brand.
That scene was apparently based on a real-life experience of one of the screenwriters, Karen McCullah.
"I offered my sorority sisters activity points for stealing replacement rolls from the administration building," she explained.
That's quite a demonstration to simply have a toilet paper brand changed inside of a sorority house!
Like so many films, Legally Blonde is, in fact, based on a book by the same title, written by Amanda Brown, that was published in 2001.
"[Law school] helped me decide what I wanted to do: write," the author revealed.
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