Reese Witherspoon hints at 'Legally Blonde' return: 'It's my superhero'

Reese Witherspoon has shown interest in reprising her Legally Blonde role.

​The Morning Show star, who played Elle Woods in the 2001 rom-com movie and its 2003 sequel, said in a recent interview with Extra that she "would love to do it again."

​She gushed, "It's like it's my superhero. So, it's like my Marvel character. I would love to play her again. It just has to be perfect."

​Reese then drew a comparison between her role and Tom Cruise's role as Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell, which he reprised after 36 years in 2022's Top Gun: Maverick.

​The award-winning actress said, "Like, Tom Cruise did it right. He only came out with Top Gun when it was absolutely right. And I was like, he nailed it … or like Adam Sandler brought back Happy Gilmore … So, we're gonna get there. We're gonna do it."

​In a previous chat on The Graham Norton Show back in January 2025, Reese revealed how her Legally Blonde role landed her a jury duty.

​“Well listen, I did not want to do jury duty,” Reese said on the show. “But I remember it was after ‘Legally Blonde.’ It was probably like seven years after ‘Legally Blonde,’ I got called for jury duty and it was in Beverly Hills. I thought, ‘Surely they’re not gonna pick me.’ They picked me for a long trial, y’all. It was probably two weeks. I was on the jury.”