Reese Witherspoon discusses how "Legally Blonde 3" was influenced by "Top Gun: Maverick”

The actress explained how Tom Cruise's "Top Gun: Maverick" served as inspiration for the third "Legally Blonde" movie in a recent interview.

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It's similar to 'Top Gun,' in that they waited a long time to release a sequel, and I appreciated the nostalgic element they had in it," she said.

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"So in that sense, it definitely gave us a lot of inspiration about what we would want to accomplish with Elle Woods and make sure we had all those similar touchstones that mattered to people then"

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The movie is now set to bow in 2023.

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Witherspoon also discussed her most recent television drama, "Surface," which makes its Apple TV+ premiere on Friday

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This marks Witherspoon and Mbatha-Raw's third time working together.

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They appeared onscreen alongside one another in the 2018 film "A Wrinkle in Time"

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And in season one of AppleTV+'s "The Morning Show."

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