Forget TV — the 2022 Emmys have been all about early 2000s rom-coms. Reese Witherspoon staged mini reunions together with her Legally Blonde and Sweet Home Alabama costars whereas attending the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards.
The Oscar winner, 46, bumped into Selma Blair backstage on Monday, September 12, and snapped a photograph with the actress, 50. The duo appeared collectively in 1999’s Cruel Intentions in addition to 2001’s Legally Blonde.
“Catching up with my girl forever!” the Big Little Lies alum captioned an Instagram Story photograph on Monday of her and the Michigan native posing collectively. (Witherspoon was nominated for her work on The Morning Show, whereas Blair was there to current the trophy for Outstanding Drama Series.)
The joyful reunions didn’t cease with Elle Woods and Vivian Kensington, nonetheless. The Whiskey in a Teacup creator additionally met up with Melanie Lynskey, who appeared alongside Witherspoon in 2002’s Sweet Home Alabama. The Yellowjackets star, 45, performed Lurlynn, certainly one of Melanie’s buddies from her hometown of Pigeon Creek.
“This reunion made me super emotional!” the Walk the Line actress wrote through her Instagram Story alongside a selfie together with her former costar. “I love you @msmelanielynskey.”
Lurlynn famously introduced her toddler to a pub at one level in Sweet Home Alabama, main Melanie to exclaim, “Look at you, you have a baby … in a bar!” Last 12 months, Lynskey instructed Us Weekly that she will be able to relate — as a result of she’s accomplished the identical factor.
“I think that I have, yes!” the Heavenly Creatures star stated in October 2021 when requested if she’d ever channeled her inside Lurlynn. “I think I brought my daughter to a bar.”
The New Zealand native and her husband, Jason Ritter, welcomed their daughter, now 3, in December 2018. Lynskey defined that she as soon as introduced the toddler together with her to a wrap social gathering for the 2021 movie Lady of the Manor.
“We had this sort of crew party through filming, and it was at a bar,” she recalled to Us. “Yeah, she was there at the bar!”
While Witherspoon and her well-known buddies have been glad to satisfy up backstage on the Emmys, some viewers puzzled why producers didn’t prepare any on-stage reunions. Jennifer Coolidge and Holland Taylor, who appeared in Legally Blonde, and Jean Smart, who starred in Sweet Home Alabama, have been additionally current on the awards present.
“So you mean to tell me we had Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Coolidge and Selma Blair in the same room tonight at the #Emmys? And they didn’t all present together?” creator Dave Quinn tweeted in the course of the ceremony on Monday. “If we don’t AT LEAST get a LEGALLY BLONDE reunion picture.”
Sharing 4 images of Blair, Witherspoon, Coolidge, 61, and Taylor, 79, one other fan tweeted: “They were all at the #Emmys and can someone check in on Luke Wilson because we need this Legally Blonde reunion IM BEGGING.”
Keep scrolling for extra images from Witherspoon’s evening of reunions.
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