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'Legally Blonde' star Reese Witherspoon was chosen as jury foreman after jurors thought she went to law school

In a recent appearance on "The Graham Norton Show," Reese Witherspoon shared that a jury once elected her foreman because they believed she actually went to law school.


'Legally Blonde' star Reese Witherspoon was chosen as jury foreman after jurors thought she went to law school

During a recent appearance on "The Graham Norton Show," the 48-year-old "Big Little Lies" actress shared that she was once voted into a position of power while serving on a jury, after she 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."

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.

"They waited a long time to make another version of that movie, and I loved the nostalgia piece they incorporated in it," she told Entertainment Tonight in July 2022. "That gave us a lot of inspiration about what we would want to do with Elle Woods and make sure that we had all those same touchstones that mattered to people [back] then."

She continued: "I feel like these characters are my friends, so I safeguard them. I would never make the subpar, mediocre version of their story."

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