11. Davis was equal elements scared and excited for his first main movie function as Warner. “I used to be so out of my league,” he recalled throughout the October reunion. “I actually was simply off the again of the turnip truck out of Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah. I could not get out of Utah quick sufficient and I stumbled my means into this film referred to as Legally Blonde.” Very inexperienced and harboring a little bit of a factor for his costars (“I believe he had a crush on all people,” Cauffiel recently told The New York Times), “I used to be crapping my pants each step of the way in which,” he admitted.
His very first scene noticed him break up with Witherspoon. “I sat down and Elle Woods was there,” he shared, “and Elle Woods was so massive and so vigorous and I noticed that each one my selections had been fallacious.”
12. Twenty years later, he nonetheless will get crap for the callous means Warner dumped his faculty sweetheart mid-dinner date (“If I’ll be a senator by the point I am 30, I must cease dicking round”) earlier than occurring to suggest to his “Jackie”, fellow Harvard legislation scholar Vivian Kensington (Selma Blair).
Although he’d go on to roles on Damages, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals and now Legacies, “For years and years folks would say ‘You are that a–hole from Legally Blonde!'” he shared throughout the digital get-together, prompting Witherspoon to return to his protection. “I am right here to inform folks Matthew Davis is the nicest particular person!” she insisted. “He was simply taking part in a personality.”
