Selma Blair weighs in on rumored LGBT ending to Legally Blonde
Blair, who played Vivian to Reese Witherspoon's Elle, responds to co-star Jessica Cauffiel's memory of an alternate ending to the movie
Whether or not the gay ending of Legally Blonde was actually real, Selma Blair has pledged her support for it. The actress, who played Elle’s (Reese Witherspoon) rival Vivian, only just learned about the supposed alternate ending on Evan Ross Katz’s podcast, but the rumor has persisted since the New York Times oral history of the film.
In the piece, Jessica Cauffiel and Alanna Urbach, who played Elle’s sorority besties, both recalled a version of the script that ended with an enemies-to-lovers twist. “The first ending was Elle and Vivian in Hawaii in beach chairs, drinking margaritas and holding hands. The insinuation was either they were best friends or they had gotten together romantically,” Cauffiel claimed. (For the record, screenwriters Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith have denied writing such an ending.)