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Reese Witherspoon Was Amazed by Lexi Minetree's Elle Audition, Talks Legally Blonde 25th Anniversary
Reese Witherspoon Was Amazed by Lexi Minetree's Elle Audition, Talks Legally Blonde 25th Anniversary
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-We love you. We love you. -Oh, my God, it's mutual.
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-Welcome back to the show.
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Hey, since you were here,
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I just want to say happy belated birthday to you,
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Reese Witherspoon. -Thank you!
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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-A milestone. -I know, big milestone.
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I turned 50. [ Audience cheers ]
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-Oh, my gosh. Unbelievable. -Yeah.
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-And how was the celebration?
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I heard the party was amazing. -Oh, my God.
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Well, there's somebody who's going to be
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on your stage tonight who was there.
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-Oh, really? -Yeah. You'll just have to guess.
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-Okay. -But it was really fun.
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And you know what the best part was?
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-Yeah? -No phones.
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-Ah! The best.
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-I remember it was great,
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but I have no real memory.
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-You have no proof. You have no proof.
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-Proof or photos, yeah. -Oh, you crushed it, though.
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I heard it was great.
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Speaking of milestones, your son just graduated from NYU.
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That's amazing. Deacon.
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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-I'm so proud of him.
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-I mean, that's crazy that he's graduated college.
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I love that. And you posted this and you said
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not only did he graduate,
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but also that the honorary speaker that night
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was the great Laura Dern. -I know.
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-Who's your bud. -How about my best friend
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was the commencement speaker? -What a day.
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-It was a lot of tears. -Yeah.
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-Happy tears. -You got to be so proud.
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-Oh, I'm so proud.
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-You've had such a crazy year.
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Congratulations. You had the number-one book.
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Your book that you came out with.
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Remember you were talking about last time.
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-I came here and talked about it, yeah.
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I wrote a book. -Come on.
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You crushed it. Number one. [ Cheers and applause ]
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Number-one bestseller.
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-Yes. -"Gone Before Goodbye."
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-I know, and now it's out on paperback,
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so it's perfect for summer reading.
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-Ooh!
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-If you want to read it by the pool or something.
1:33
-What's happening with season 5 of "Morning Show"?
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-Season 5 of "The Morning Show" is currently filming.
1:38
We are -- I think Jennifer and I are on seas--
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like episode 8 right now and lots of things are happening.
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-Uh-oh, no, no, no. Bradley, no. -I know.
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-And new people are joining the cast?
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-New people. Yeah. Who do we have?
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We have Reneé Rapp, who's so fun.
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[ Cheers and applause ] She's amazing.
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And we just -- we have Jeff Daniels and Sean Hayes.
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-Sean Hayes? Oh, stop. [ Cheers and applause ]
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-It's so good. It's really fun.
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-And then I always ask you about "Big Little Lies."
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-Yes. -Every time you come on, you tell me nothing.
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[ Laughter ] But is it happening?
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Can we say that there is a new? No.
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-It is, uh... -Oh, my gosh.
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-I don't -- I -- -I know, but --
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-It is in process for sure.
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-This one I feel like you're telling the truth.
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-I am telling the truth.
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There's a new book that comes out in September.
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-Okay. -And so you'll see where
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we're at and we are making the TV show based on that book.
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So in September, I think it's called...
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I don't want to say the wrong thing.
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-I don't want to mess it up. -"Big Little Truths"?
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-Oh! -"One Giant Lie"?
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-Wow. These are all great titles.
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-"Giant Big Lies"?
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-Yeah, these are all great titles.
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-They're really good. -Yeah. They're good. Yeah.
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But let's talk about your new series, "Elle."
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-Yes. "Elle." -Congratulations, by the way.
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[ Cheers and applause ] -Thank you.
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-I love that you did this. -I know.
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-This is based on your iconic character Elle Woods,
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from your hit movie "Legally Blonde," which is celebrating --
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[ Cheers and applause ]
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Everyone loves it. -25 years. 25 years.
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-It's celebrating its 25th anniversary.
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Can you believe that? -No.
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I don't know where 25 years went.
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-That's wild. -Because every day,
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probably like twice a week,
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somebody comes up to me and says, "That's my favorite movie.
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I went to law school because of you."
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-No way. -Or, you know, I go to Starbucks
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and I order a coffee and they're like, "What, like it's hard?"
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[ Laughter ]
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Or whatever. -It's so fun.
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-So it's really great. It's an iconic character.
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It's really -- It's a feminist character.
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She's so optimistic and, you know,
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her whole life is about -- she thinks it's about this guy
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and following him to college but it's really --
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it's a story of being an underdog and a fish
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out of water in a place where she doesn't feel welcome.
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And I think everybody has that feeling at one point
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in their lives, you know? -Yeah.
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-So I just thought, why not start
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and make her a character for young women nowadays?
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I just -- I looked at, you know,
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what's going on with young girls.
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And I just think they need a better role model.
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So it was time to bring Elle Woods back.
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-Let's go. Come on. [ Cheers and applause ]
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I love that. -Yeah. Yeah.
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-I think that's great. -It's really fun too
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because it's all like '90s nostalgia.
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-Well, the premise is really funny.
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It's great. -It is really funny.
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So Elle Woods lives in Bel Air, as everybody kind of knows.
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But her father is a plastic surgeon
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and he has a botched surgery, so he gets kind of run out of L.A.
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and he moves to Seattle.
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And so Elle Woods -- -To hide out.
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-Right. And this is during '90s grunge.
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Think like Pearl Jam and Nirvana.
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And she walks through this like bright pink light
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and everybody's like, "Ew."
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-Yeah. Perfect. -Ew, yeah.
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-I love it. And Lexi Minetree... -Yes.
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-Plays Elle. How did you find her?
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She was on the show last week.
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-I know. Thank you for having her on the show.
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She's just such a -- -She's fantastic.
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-She's such a bright light, and she --
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-She's very you. -I know.
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-Yeah. -It was spooky, you guys.
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We watched 3,000 videos of girls trying out
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to be Elle Woods, and when I saw her video,
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it was like lightning strike.
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She had my voice down. She had the mannerisms.
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She held her body a certain way. She had a --
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There's a part of this movie where I have like a little lisp,
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and she had the lisp, but I was like, "Oh, my God."
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-Down to the last detail. -She also did --
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She re-enacted the Harvard admissions video in her backyard
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And I was like... -She went for it.
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-It was that extra 10% that made her.
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-She told me she watched the -- After getting the job,
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she watched it another 150 times
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and she did an amazing Jennifer Coolidge impression.
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If you haven't seen it, go on YouTube. -Did she?
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-Oh, it's amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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-It's amazing.
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-By the way, she came on in this beautiful dress.
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And it turns out it's the dress
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that you wore to the premiere of "Legally Blonde" 25 years ago.
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-That's right. -It was genius.
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How did you think of this idea?
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-Well, actually, her stylist is a friend of mine
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for so many years.
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And she said to me,
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"Do you have any dresses from the time period?"
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And I have all the wardrobe in storage.
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So I sent her as many dresses as they wanted.
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And I said, "Choose any dresses that you want for her."
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And she put it on and it fit perfectly.
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-I mean, it's so perfect. -It's like Cinderella's slipper.
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-Yes, it is. She's meant to be Elle.
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-She was meant to be Elle Woods! -She was meant to be Elle Woods.
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I want to show a clip.
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Here's a scene from "Elle" season 1.
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Take a look.
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-Is he mine? -He's yours.
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[ Both shrieking ]
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I know! -He's so cute.
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Aww! Wait.
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[ Dog yips ]
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Did you adopt or did you shop?
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-The Spellings just redecorated,
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and earth tones don't match their new color palette.
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So I rescued this little blondie from them.
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-Aww! My God, you are just a baby.
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Oh, I bet you're a Gemini like me.
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[ Dog barks ] Oh, and such a tough guy.
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Oh, you need a tough-guy name.
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I know. Bruiser.
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-Oh, Bruiser!
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[ Cheers and applause ] Bruiser!
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-Could baby Bruiser be the new baby Yoda?
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-Yes! This is just like "The Mandalorian" and Grogu.
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-It is. It's the origin story of Bruiser.
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-Oh, my God. Reese Witherspoon, everybody.
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"Elle" season 1 premieres on Prime Video July 1st.
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Zoey Deutch joins us after the break. Stick around!
