It's hard to imagine anyone other than Reese Witherspoon in the iconic role of Elle Woods, but apparently, she wasn't the first choice! Applegate told Entertainment Tonight that she got the script right after wrapping Married . . . With Children and rejected the role out of a fear of being typecast early in her career.
"I got scared of kind of repeating myself... What a stupid move that was, right?" she joked later, adding, "[But] Reese deserved that. She did a much better job than I ever could."