Reese Witherspoon Thought ‘Nobody’ Would See ‘Legally Blonde’ Before ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ Success

Legally Blonde” is now legal…but Reese Witherspoon apparently didn’t think the film would spur two sequels back in 2001.Ahead of “Legally Blonde 3,” penned by Mindy Kaling, longtime Witherspoon collaborator Andy Tennant revealed the Emmy and Oscar winner didn’t anticipate the massive success of the Harvard Law School-based fish out of water rom-com.“I had lunch with her not that long before I turned in the ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ script,” Tennant told Insider as part of a “Sweet Home Alabama” 20th anniversary oral history.

“We were just catching up and I asked, ‘What have you been up to?’ And she said, ‘I made this movie nobody is going to see.

It’s silly but it was really fun to make.’ And that turned out to be ‘Legally Blonde.’”It was only after the viral sensation of “Legally Blonde” that the studio thought of Witherspoon to star

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