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Reese Witherspoon has found her new Elle Woods. Witherspoon posted on Thursday that actress Lexi Minetree has been cast as the new Elle Woods in the upcoming 'Legally Blonde' prequel series. The show, called 'Elle,' will stream on Amazon Prime. It follows Woods during her high school years before she went off to Harvard.

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00:00Reese Witherspoon has found her new Elle Woods, and now it's Instagram official.

00:14Witherspoon posted on Thursday that the actress Lexi Meintree has been cast as the new Elle Woods

00:19in the upcoming Legally Blonde prequel series. The show is called Elle and will stream on Amazon

00:24Prime. It follows Woods during her high school years before Harvard. On her IG post,

00:29Witherspoon captioned, after watching so many incredible auditions,

00:33finally found our Elle, and today I got to break the news myself.

00:37In the video, Witherspoon delivers the exciting news and you can see Meintree crying and immediately

00:41wanting to call her mom. Witherspoon, who originated the role in the 2001 movie Legally Blonde and its

00:472003 sequel, has been candid about her search to pick the new Elle Woods. While appearing on The

00:52Tonight Show, Witherspoon shared with Jimmy Fallon a bit about reviewing the audition tapes.

00:56They have to shoot, produce, do all the costumes. They have to put together videos that are basically

01:02like a mini movie. It's crazy. But they're killing it. And now I'm having, it's a really hard decision.

01:07Witherspoon will executive produce the upcoming series via her Hello Sunshine banner.

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