Legally Blonde Alternate Ending

“She and Vivian were good friends, and Vivian is blonde now,” McCullah, 54, told the newspaper. “They had founded the Blond Legal Defense Club and were handing out flyers about the quad bike because it was the end of Amanda`s manuscript [Brown, the author of the novel the film is based on].” “It was just a weak ending. The kiss didn`t seem right because it`s not a romantic comedy – it wasn`t about their relationship. So the test viewers said, “We want to see what happens – we want her to succeed.” That`s why we rewrote for graduation. “It was after the trial. They kissed outside the courthouse,” McCullah told EW. “And then we cut back to a year later, where Elle and Vivian hand out flyers for the Blonde Legal Defense Fund on campus. Vivian had dyed her hair blonde and they were friends. With the ending that is in the film, these are the only two endings that were shot. But when a test audience didn`t like the ending, McCullah and co-author Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith pondered. “The audience at the test screening didn`t feel like it was an exciting ending for them in terms of success. The kiss made it feel like it was a romantic comedy,” McCullah said, adding, “They knew it wasn`t a movie about a girl getting a man.” When Blair learned of this alternate ending by appearing on the “Shut Up Evan” podcast this month, she was excited about the idea.

But she admitted that she had never seen or heard of this ending in the past. Last week (9. July), Legally Blonde actress Jessica Cauffiel recalled an alternate ending to the 2001 romantic comedy, in which Elle (Reese Witherspoon) and her former nemesis Vivian (Selma Blair) met romantically — or at least it was suggested. The end of Legal Blonde delivers an excellent message. However, the original final shot would have completely missed the point raised by the film. Actress Jessica Cauffiel, who played Elle`s girlfriend Margot, claimed in the same interview that a third alternate ending involved Elle and Vivian getting together. The “Mean Baby” author remembers dying his hair for the other alternate ending, with Elle and Vivian both being blonde: “There was an ending where Vivian was blonde, and I became blonde,” Blair shared. “I have the Polaroids. I looked exactly like Faye Dunaway in `Bonnie and Clyde`. The beret was on and the blonde. In a recent interview with The New York Times, screenwriter Karen McCullah revealed that the film had an alternate ending, where Elle and Vivian were shown a year later to promote their latest joint project.

This ambiguous ending wasn`t the only thing Cauffiel and Ubach shared with the Times. They said there was a version where Vivian dyed her hair blonde and another that ended with a great musical number. In an oral history of the film for the New York Times, actress Jessica Cauffiel (one of Elle`s best friends, Margot) claimed that an early ending to the film with Elle and her former adversary Vivian “ended in Hawaii in beach chairs, drinking margaritas and holding hands.” With a third “Legally Blonde” movie on the way, it`s pretty fascinating how the original movie could have ended. Thankfully, we never had to see the alternate ending and we can be happy to know that Elle Woods is thriving somewhere as a lawyer. We will soon take a look at their latest adventures! Screenwriters Karen McCullah and Kristen Smith also noticed other endings, including one in which Elle and Vivian, who is now also blonde, founded the Blonde Legal Defense Club and distributed flyers at Harvard Law School Quad. Another option was to end with a kiss between Elle and Emmett (Luke Wilson), but eventually the current degree was decided with Elle giving the law school graduation speech. But according to an oral history of “Legally Blonde” celebrating its 20th anniversary in the New York Times published last year, two of the film`s actors, Jessica Cauffiel (Margot) and Alanna Ubach (Serena), said the film had already had a completely different ending. “The first end was Elle and Vivian in Hawaii in beach chairs, drinking margaritas and holding hands,” Cauffiel explained. “The suggestion was that they were either best friends or that they had met romantically.” Kirsten Smith, the film`s other writer, said another proposed ending would have featured Elle and Emmett in a passionate embrace. “One of the versions ended with Emmett and Elle kissing,” recalls the 50-year-old screenwriter of Ella Enchanted. “We showed the film two or three times, and each time people didn`t want to end it with a kiss. They thought it wasn`t a story about [Her] having a boyfriend, which was really cool when people say that. So the queer ending should never be.