Reese Witherspoon says folks thought she was an actual lawyer whereas serving jury obligation after ‘Legally Blonde’

Reese Witherspoon was as soon as made to step up whereas serving on a jury — all due to “Legally Blonde.”

In a current look on “The Graham Norton Present,” the actor recalled being mistaken for an actual lawyer by her fellow jurors due to her portrayal of Elle Woods.

“Pay attention, I didn’t wish to do jury obligation,” Witherspoon stated. “However I keep in mind… it was most likely seven years after ‘Legally Blonde,’ I bought referred to as for jury obligation and it was in Beverly Hills. I assumed, ‘Absolutely they’re not gonna choose me.’”

She was improper.

“They picked me for a lengthy trial, y’all. It was most likely two weeks,” Witherspoon stated, as “You’re Cordially Invited” costar Will Ferrell poked enjoyable on the size of time. “It was two stable weeks day by day getting into. It was a canine chew case.”

She stated that the trial went to deliberation, and that is when she discovered that folks thought she went to legislation college.

“We went to deliberation and so on the very finish they are saying, ‘OK, effectively anyone on this group must be the foreman.’ They usually all unanimously are like, ‘Her,’” she stated. “Me! Me?”

When she requested the jurors why they picked her, she stated, “They had been like, ‘You went to legislation college.’ I used to be like, ‘Y’all that is actually upsetting. I undoubtedly didn’t go to legislation college, I didn’t end faculty.’”

“I performed a lawyer in a film as soon as,” she stated. “However they totally made me the foreman. And I began realizing, folks don’t know a lot concerning the legislation.”

Witherspoon portrayed sorority-turned-law-student Elle Woods within the 2001 movie “Legally Blonde.” She reprised the position within the 2003 sequel “Legally Blonde 2: Crimson, White & Blonde,” wherein Elle heads to Washington D.C. to combat for animal rights.

Talks about Witherspoon as soon as once more changing into the pink-obsessed Elle in a 3rd movie have been occurring for years.

“I feel Reese has been working over time, attempting to place one thing collectively, and Reese is simply so sensible. She’s not simply going to do a Half 3,” Luke Wilson, who portrayed Elle’s love curiosity Emmett Richmond, informed TODAY.com in October a couple of third installment.

In Might of 2024, nevertheless, Witherspoon dressed as Elle to substantiate that a “Legally Blonde” prequel sequence was within the works for Amazon Prime Video.

“Earlier than she grew to become probably the most well-known Gemini vegetarian to graduate from Harvard Regulation, she was only a common ‘90s highschool woman. And all of you’ll get to know her, subsequent yr on @primevideo ✨ I’M SO EXCITED!” Witherspoon captioned her video. The present is predicted to be launched later this yr.