Dylan Mulvaney is dreaming massive, and one of many characters she want to play is Elle Woods from Legally Blonde.
In a latest interview, the singer and actress mentioned that her dream theater function was to play Glinda in Wicked, however her “dream dream” was to painting the Harvard Law School scholar that Reese Witherspoon famously performed within the 2001 movie.
“My dream though is to do a trans Legally Blonde,” Mulvaney mentioned in an interview with IMDb throughout SXSW. “I wanna play Elle Woods and have maybe a trans Emmett and a trans Paulette. And I think what’s so cool about plugging trans people into existing stories is it inherently changes what the topic is, but in a way that you don’t actually have to do much to the script because it becomes something different — but actually, I think it makes it even more powerful.”
Legally Blonde is predicated on Amanda Brown’s novel of the identical title. Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith wrote the movie adaptation, which was directed by Robert Luketic. The forged of the movie additionally contains Luke Wilson as Emmett Richmond, Jennifer Coolidge as Paulette Bonafonté, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis, Victor Garber, Holland Taylor, Ali Larter, Linda Cardellini, Raquel Welch, and lots of extra.
The movie would go on to get a sequel in 2003, Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, which follows Elle Woods to D.C. A 3rd installment has been in growth with no launch date but.
A Broadway musical was produced in 2007 with music and lyrics by Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe. The musical ran by 2008 on Broadway, with a tour of the manufacturing closing in 2011.