Reese Witherspoon Says ‘There Is No Legally Blonde 3 With out Jennifer Coolidge’

Reese Witherspoon is upright as pondering about Jennifer Coolidge getting her accolades as every other fan — and now she’s teasing that the third Legally Blonde film would now not be conceivable with out her involvement.

In a brand fresh interview with Entertainment Tonight, Witherspoon, 46, made her message certain: “There’ll not be the least bit times a Legally Blonde 3 with out Jennifer Coolidge.”

“I am previous myself about Jennifer Coolidge,” Witherspoon acknowledged throughout the premiere of her fresh film Your Situation or Mine. “She deserves one and all of these flowers she is receiving appropriate now.”

“And she’s upright a form of those that’s so naturally talented and silly and that which that you might maybe well be ready to upright state folks love her. She will be able to get up there and every person’s fancy, ‘I essentially fancy her,’ nonetheless she’s upright performed a quantity of appropriate work in our industry for see you later, that it’s essentially good to search her getting this fabulous moment,” she persisted.

Coolidge’s involvement in the long-awaited third Legally Blonde film has been teased for a few years now. The film used to be first confirmed abet in 2018, and Mindy Kaling later confirmed she used to be co-writing the feature in 2020 alongside Dan Goor.

Coolidge, 61, previously acknowledged at the 2021 Emmys that she would attach a question to Kaling “what’s occurring with the Legally Blonde script” if she ran into her, and even joked at every other tournament that she used to be terrified about being “replaced” in the sequel.

At this time after, she acknowledged in a joint interview with Witherspoon for Boring the scenes that she used to be “demise to know” extra referring to the third film. “Reese is the keeper of the keys. … I know so cramped of what is occurring with that, so I will be succesful to now not wait to hear what Reese has to claim as of late.”

Throughout the dialog, Witherspoon gestured to her costar and acknowledged the film will encompass “a quantity of me and this lady.”

“The film is this form of feminist film too, at the time, about essentially that your lifestyles would not might maybe perhaps well honest silent be outlined by your romantic relationships; it might maybe also even be outlined by your girlfriends, by your sense of self-value, by your job, your schooling, your accomplishments,” she acknowledged. “So it’s attention-grabbing to search the advice of with characters two decades later,” she added. “Mindy Kaling’s writing it. They’re in the strategy of it.”

Witherspoon first played Harvard Legislation pupil Elle Woods in 2001’s Legally Blonde, which used to be adopted up with Legally Blonde 2: Crimson, White & Blonde in 2003.

Other costars luxuriate in offered that they’d be all the plot in which down to reprise their roles, even out of doorways of Coolidge, who played Paulette in every movies. When requested in 2021 if he’d are looking to reprise his role as Emmett Richmond in the subsequent installment, Luke Wilson urged PEOPLE, “Yeah. I am continuously as a lot as work with Reese again.”

“We’ll upright must search what happens,” he persisted.

The actor additionally shared at the time that he wasn’t adversarial to revisiting the usual Legally Blonde when it comes on TV. “I will gape it after I peep it on cable, and it’s on cable plenty,” Wilson acknowledged. “But upright because Reese is continuously so silly in the film to me. So I continuously gape a few things upright because I fancy her portrayal of Elle Woods so great.”

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Selma Blair additionally noteworthy on the Shut Up Evan podcast closing year that she hopes “to a minimal of absorb a cameo” in the film as Vivian Kensington.

“I am hoping, hoping that that legacy can continue, because talk referring to the suitable things in lifestyles,” Blair acknowledged. “That film is one in every of the suitable things in lifestyles. Or now not it’s a highlight. I essentially essentially feel fancy, ‘Yeah, my obit’s gonna search okay.’ ”