Reese Witherspoon’s portrayal of Elle Woods in ‘Legally Blonde’ landed her a starring role in a real life trial

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portrayed a lawyer in one of her movies.“Well listen, I did not want to do jury duty,” Witherspoon 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.” She went on to explain that over the course of the two weeks, she got “very invested in this case,” which she shared was a very clear “dog bite case.”At the end of the trial, the jury “went to deliberation” and when it came time to elect a foreman, Witherspoon shared “they all unanimously are like, ‘Her,'” while pointing at herself.

She shared the most distressing part was when she asked them why they chose her, and they said, “You went to law school.”“I was like, ‘Y’all this is really upsetting.

I definitely did not go to law school, I didn’t finish college,’” she said. “I played a lawyer in a movie once, but they fully made me the foreman and I started realizing people don’t know much about the law.”Witherspoon famously played the character of Elle Woods, in the 2001 movie “Legally Blonde,” portraying a young woman who applies and gets into Harvard Law School in order to win back her boyfriend, only to realize she has the potential to be a high-powered attorney.She reprised the role in the 2003 sequel, “Legally Blonde: Red, White & Blonde,” and later produced, but did not star in, “Legally Blondes” in 2009.In June 2018, Witherspoon shared a video of herself recreating a scene from the first film on social media, announcing a third film is in the works.Not much is known about the movie’s plot, or which members of the.