NEW YORK, June 30 (UPI) — Lexi Minetree says that the title character she performs within the Legally Blonde prequel, Elle, suffers from tradition shock when she strikes from California to Washington state for her junior 12 months of highschool.
Set within the Nineteen Nineties, the present premieres Wednesday on Prime Video and follows the good, effervescent and kind-hearted teen as she figures out a brand new social construction after her father switches jobs.
“Pink little Elle Woods is a fish out of water in grunge Seattle and I feel it is actually enjoyable to see somebody who’s so out of their aspect,” Minetree informed UPI in a latest Zoom interview.
“What’s cool concerning the prequel is that you simply get to see how she turns into the assured girl that we see within the film,” the actress defined.
“She’s, clearly, coming from Bel-Air, in a bubble, as a really particular world and, when she strikes right here, she meets people who find themselves very totally different than anybody she’s ever skilled and, as a result of it is the Nineteen Nineties, we do not have the entry to the Web as a lot or telephones or social media to tell us of those cultural adjustments and, so, I feel it is actually cool to see somebody study, in actual time, this entire new world.”
Gabrielle Policano performs Liz, one in every of Elle’s new classmates.
“Liz is so cool. She’s sort of a loner. She isn’t an enormous talker or social being, principally as a result of she does not really feel tremendous the should be,” Policano mentioned.
“She’s very content material along with her Stroll-man and a ebook. She’s very grounded and really true to who she is and that is one thing that her and Elle type of bond over — being very unabashed by your self,” she added.
“They kind this type of lovely relationship the place I feel they train one another so much and I feel they study from one another. It is my hope and dream that in Legally Blonde 7, we see them as outdated women collectively in a rocking chair.”
Chandler Kinney performs Kimberly, the queen bee at Elle’s new faculty, who is not inquisitive about making any new buddies.
“If Elle Woods is a Gemini vegetarian, then Kimberly is a Scorpio carnivore,” Kinney quipped.
“She is a pointy girlie. She has so much on her thoughts and he or she has so much to say and, as a result of it is the Nineteen Nineties, she says it proper to Elle’s face, bullying her straight within the hallway for everybody to see,” Kinney added. “She’s sort of prime of the meals chain and I feel she’s labored actually exhausting to carry that place.”
Kimberly feels socially threatened by Elle’s arrival on the faculty, the actress acknowledged.
“She’s very guarded,” Kinney mentioned. “She’s acquired so much to guard, however I feel Elle Woods may be very persistent in sort of breaking down her partitions — and as she does so efficiently — you get to see extra of her vulnerability unfold because the season goes on.”
The trio of actresses mentioned they’re excited by the concept that moms who grew up loving Legally Blonde may need Elle watch events with their teen daughters.
“That makes me so pleased,” Kinney mentioned.
“That sounds so cute!” Minetree chimed in.
“The truth that they’ll watch this present collectively is so particular to us,” Kinney continued.
“Once I first signed onto the present, that was one of many first issues that I heard from our show-runners,” she added. “They’ll all put on pink or plaid and simply have a cute little watch celebration. That is what we wish.”
