Reese Witherspoon Pays Tribute to Legally Blonde, Which Premiered 20 Years Ago Today
Reese Witherspoon Pays Tribute to Legally Blonde, Which Premiered 20 Years Ago Today
Reese Witherspoon is looking back at 20 years of Elle Woods by celebrating the 20th anniversary of the theatrical release of Legally Blonde.
Reese Witherspoon reflected on her role in
Legally Blonde 20 years to the day the movie premiered in theaters. Released on July 13, 2001, the legal comedy starred Witherspoon as Elle Woods, a blonde sorority girl who earns a degree at Harvard and becomes a very successful lawyer. A tremendous hit at the box office, the movie spawned an ongoing franchise that has another installment currently in the works.
Legally Blonde, a film about how hard it sometimes is to be a very sexy platinum-blonde white chick with a penchant for short skirts, was first released in 2001, making the movie old enough to drive a Barbie pink convertible, vote for whichever political candidate has the winning combination of good politics and good hair, and contemplate enrolling in the US Army because it
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