Reese Witherspoon has found her new Elle Woods. Witherspoon posted on Thursday that actress Lexi Minetree has been cast as the new Elle Woods in the upcoming 'Legally Blonde' prequel series. The show, called 'Elle,' will stream on Amazon Prime. It follows Woods during her high school years before she went off to Harvard.
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00:00Reese Witherspoon has found her new Elle Woods and now it's Instagram official.
00:14Witherspoon posted on Thursday that the actress Lexi Mindtree has been cast as the new Elle Woods
00:19in the upcoming Legally Blonde prequel series.
00:22The show is called Elle and will stream on Amazon Prime.
00:25It follows Woods during her high school years before Harvard.
00:28On her IG post, Witherspoon captioned,
00:30After watching so many incredible auditions,
00:33finally found our Elle, and today I got to break the news myself.
00:37In the video, Witherspoon delivers the exciting news and you can see
00:40Mindtree crying and immediately wanting to call her mom.
00:43Witherspoon, who originated the role in the 2001 movie Legally Blonde and its 2003 sequel,
00:48has been candid about her search to pick the new Elle Woods.
00:51While appearing on The Tonight Show,
00:53Witherspoon shared with Jimmy Fallon a bit about reviewing the audition tapes.
00:56They have to shoot, produce, do all the costumes. They have to put together videos
01:01that are basically like a mini movie. It's crazy. But they're killing it.
01:05And now I'm having, it's a really hard decision.
01:07Witherspoon will executive produce the upcoming series via her Hello Sunshine banner.
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