Reese Witherspoon’s been busy as hell lately, what with pitching a series to HBO with Cheryl Strayed and Laura Dern and pillaging the villages of her enemies. Last week, Witherspoon added to her considerable pile of work by blithely suggesting that somebody should greenlight Legally Blonde 3 and also by running for president.
“A lot of writers… over the years have come up with different ideas for it,” she told the host of a show called “Fashionably Late” that I have never heard of until right now. “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. 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… I think we’re ready to see Elle and see what she’s up to lately.”
If that’s not a statement of intent to run for office, I don’t know what is.
Witherspoon fanned the flames of her nascent political career again over the weekend, perhaps in hopes that her fans might storm the nation’s capitol and demand that the government fund a third installment of Elle Woods’ saga and somehow set off a chain reaction that ends with Reese Witherspoon becoming president of the United States. While being honored for something or other at the 29th American Cinematheque Awards in LA, Witherspoon told Entertainment Tonight that she knew her initial comments had set off a bit of a media frenzy. “I know people got excited about that,” she said, then admitted she “didn’t know” whether the movie would actually be made. “The screeners [sic?] wrote me and they said they were going to think about it.”
And while the screeners (?) think about it, Witherspoon herself will continue saying things like this in interviews until somebody asks her to become the leader of the free world: “I think it’s a really great time to talk about women in politics because we need more women in politics. We’re 50 percent of the population, but we’re only 17 percent of the government. We need some balance there.”
