Actress Lexi Minetree grew up loving Legally Blonde – now she’s Elle Woods in the prequel
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Actress Lexi Minetree as the teenage Elle Woods in Elle, the Prime Video prequel series to Legally Blonde (2001).
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Melena Ryzik
- Lexi Minetree stars as teenage Elle Woods in Prime Video’s Legally Blonde prequel, capturing Elle’s blend of optimism, diligence, and vulnerability.
- The series is set in 1995 Seattle, showing Elle’s struggles to fit in after leaving her privileged life in Bel Air.
- Minetree prepared intensely for the role, memorising scripts and embracing Elle’s confident, unapologetic spirit; a second season has already been filmed.
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NEW YORK – To audition for the role of the teenage Elle Woods, heroine of Prime Video’s prequel series to Legally Blonde, Lexi Minetree put on a pink bikini and reclined in a hot tub. Then the fun began.
Inspired by a scene from the 2001 movie, in which a swimsuit-clad Elle (Reese Witherspoon) submits a video application to Harvard Law School, Minetree listed her own qualifications: staying fit (she hoisted two-pound, or 900g, weights), learning new, detail-oriented skills (she crocheted on camera) and juggling her various interests (she juggled limes – “I’m a hobby collector,” she said).
