--- title: Reese Witherspoon Confirmed Legally Blonde 3 As Only She Can description: Reese Witherspoon, the original Elle Woods, confirmed on Twitter that 'Legally Blonde 3' is in the works. canonical: https://time.com/5304556/reese-witherspoon-legally-blonde-confirm/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-07T16:34:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:17.411Z og:title: Reese Witherspoon Confirmed Legally Blonde 3 As Only She Can og:description: Prepare for the return of Elle Woods og:url: https://time.com/5304556/reese-witherspoon-legally-blonde-confirm/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt226dfff37a035054/6988a068cf40a881f8c44476/legally-blonde.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: legally-blonde og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Reese Witherspoon Confirmed Legally Blonde 3 As Only She Can twitter:description: Prepare for the return of Elle Woods twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt226dfff37a035054/6988a068cf40a881f8c44476/legally-blonde.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Reese Witherspoon Confirms _Legally Blonde 3_ As Only She Can  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 7, 2018 4:34 PM UTC  Movie: Legally Blonde, 2001; Play: Legally Blonde: The Musical, 2007. Movie: Legally Blonde, 2001; Play: Legally Blonde: The Musical, 2007.Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 7, 2018 4:34 PM UTC It’s official: [_Legally Blonde 3_](http://time.com/4086456/reese-witherspoon-legally-blonde-3/) is coming. On Thursday, none other than the beloved Elle Woods actress [Reese Witherspoon](http://time.com/5238498/nicole-kidman-reese-witherspoon-big-little-lies/) herself updated the world with the news on social media. She shared a particularly iconic video clip of herself drifting languidly across a pool, reclining on a blow-up floatie. “It’s true…” she wrote. (The scene, if you’ll recall, reenacts her Harvard application video from the 2001 original.) Earlier in the week, news began to pop up that MGM was nearing a deal to make the sequel happen. [According to Deadline](https://deadline.com/2018/06/legally-blonde-3-reese-witherspoon-mgm-kirsten-smith-karen-mccullah-1202402011/), many of the original players are coming back on board: writers Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith and Karen McCullah will be joined by producers Marc Platt and Adam Siegel, with Witherspoon also involved in production. _Legally Blonde_ first hit theaters in 2001, and nothing has been the same since. No, really: Witherspoon’s now-classic portrayal of a bright, ambitious, pink-loving young law student proving that one shouldn’t judge books by their covers has become part of the cultural lexicon, spawning a number of indelible catchphrases and launching Witherspoon to superstardom. (Consider: the bend and snap. The importance of an alibi. The line, “What, like it’s hard?”) [It was followed](http://time.com/4086456/reese-witherspoon-legally-blonde-3/) by a 2003 sequel (_Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde_), a 2007 Broadway musical and a 2009 straight-to-video spinoff. But we shouldn’t be surprised: Witherspoon has been gunning for this for years. “I actually think it’s kind of great right now because we’re talking about women in politics and how important that is to get more women,” [she said](http://time.com/4086456/reese-witherspoon-legally-blonde-3/) in a 2015 TV appearance about the potential for a _Legally Blonde_ return. “And I think it’d be kind of a cool thing to have her be a Supreme Court justice or someone who runs for office.” Looks like we already have a head start on those plot lines. > [](https://twitter.com/RWitherspoon/status/1004695960423882752) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5304556/reese-witherspoon-legally-blonde-confirm/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5304556/reese-witherspoon-legally-blonde-confirm/"},"headline":"Reese Witherspoon Confirms Legally Blonde 3 As Only She Can","datePublished":"2018-06-07T16:34:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:17.411Z","description":"\"It's true...\"","url":"https://time.com/5304556/reese-witherspoon-legally-blonde-confirm/","keywords":["Newsfeed"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt226dfff37a035054/6988a068cf40a881f8c44476/legally-blonde.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt226dfff37a035054/6988a068cf40a881f8c44476/legally-blonde.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"legally-blonde","caption":"Movie: Legally Blonde, 2001; Play: Legally Blonde: The Musical, 2007.","creditText":"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5304556/reese-witherspoon-legally-blonde-confirm/","name":"Reese Witherspoon Confirms Legally Blonde 3 As Only She Can"}}]}] ```