Reese Witherspoon Says “There Is No ‘Legally Blonde 3’ Without Jennifer Coolidge”
Reese Witherspoon has made her point abundantly clear: "There is no 'Legally Blonde 3' without Jennifer Coolidge." https://t.co/96Sa4R7Rrt
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) February 4, 2023
“There is no Legally Blonde 3 without Jennifer Coolidge,” Witherspoon told Entertainment Tonight.
Coolidge is coming off a renaissance after starring last year on Netflix’s thriller The Watcher and HBO’s The White Lotus, for which she recently earned a Golden Globe award.
Witherspoon is thrilled about Coolidge’s success and added, “I’m beyond myself about Jennifer Coolidge. She deserves every one of those flowers she is receiving right now. And she’s just one of those people who is so naturally gifted and funny and that you can just tell people love her, ’cause she gets up there and everybody’s like, ‘I love her,’ but she’s just done a lot of good work in our business for so long, that it’s really nice to see her getting this incredible moment.”
Coolidge had previously stated that she didn’t know anything about Legally Blonde 3. In October 2022, she told ET, “I know nothing, I mean I don’t know if they wanted to surprise me or something, ’cause I hear about it a lot. I heard that Mindy has this amazing version of our next round, but I haven’t seen it. I don’t have the call yet.”
However Kaling confirmed that she had written Coolidge in the new film in April 2022. "[She] is just someone who all writers would kill to write for," Kaling said. "She is so funny. She elevates any material and she is just like... She can just do a glance, it is just hilarious. And so as a writer, it's the jackpot. Especially in that character, her character, [beautician] Paulette, is so funny and their dynamic is so funny. It's been really great. She [has] a very juicy story in this one. That's all I can say, and by the way, Elle has a very juicy story. The two of them, seeing what they look like now after 20 years, is really fun."
Legally Blonde 3 was announced all the way back in 2018 and was originally set to be released on Valentine’s Day in 2020. The film is now expected for a 2023 release, or so they say. Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor are attached to write.
I think Jennifer Coolidge has more than earned her tag tbh.
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