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 2020 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 method into this film known as Legally Blonde.” Very inexperienced and harboring a little bit of a factor for his costars (“I feel he had a crush on all people,” Cauffiel informed The New York Instances), “I used to be crapping my pants each step of the best way,” he admitted.
Davis’ very first scene noticed him break up with Witherspoon. “I sat down and suddenly Elle Woods was there,” he shared, “and Elle Woods was so large and so lively and I spotted that every one my selections have been incorrect.”
12. 20 years later, he nonetheless will get crap for the callous method Warner dumped his school sweetheart mid-dinner date (“If I’ll be a senator by the point I am 30, I have to cease dicking round”) earlier than occurring to suggest to his “Jackie”, fellow Harvard regulation scholar Vivian Kensington (Selma Blair).
Although he’d go on to roles on Damages, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals and 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 individual!” she insisted. “He was simply taking part in a personality.”
