Luke Wilson is reprising his role as Legally Blonde on the Today show — with Savannah Guthrie as Elle Woods!

Wilson made a surprise appearance as his character from the beloved Reese Witherspoon-led romantic comedy franchise in a special Halloween episode of the show

Luke Wilson returns to the world Legal blonde!

The 53-year-old actor unexpectedly appeared on Halloween episode Todayshow on Thursday, October 31, where he reprized his role as Emmett Richmond from the beloved rom-com franchise, opposite Savannah Guthrie like Elle Woods.

Playback famous scene where Emmett first meets Elle (famous role in the 2001 film and its 2003 sequel Reese Witherspoon), 52-year-old Guthrie stepped out in her signature pink sorority-turned-Harvard-law-student outfit with her cuddly dog ​​Bruiser.

“You have a Stromwell, huh?” Wilson, as Emmett, asked a tense Elle, going on to say, as in the film, “She made me cry one time. I mean, not in class—I waited until I got back to my room. But yeah, she’ll hit you right in the…”

– Oh, do you want some nuts? Guthrie quipped, pulling out a bag of salty snacks.

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After reciting more lines from the stage — and highlighting Elle’s rose-scented resume (“I think it just adds something more, doesn’t it?,” Guthrie said) — the host delivered a great Witherspoon’s famous Bend and Click go from the first movie.

“Works every time,” she said before they both pretended to leave and drink coffee together.

Later in the episode, Guthrie and her co-hosts, who as usual went all out for the holiday by dressing up as characters from iconic films such as Beetle juice, Titanic, Bring it on, Mrs. Doubtfire, Austin Powers, Host: The Legend of Ron Burgundyand Beverly Hills Copfor this year’s “VHS Rewind” theme — spoke with Wilson about the future Legal blonde Universe.

Having discovered Guthrie and Walking Kotb that he was “nervous” to reprise his role in the show and joked that it was “the closest thing to doing it on Broadway”, the actor admitted that the lines “didn’t come back” to him as easily as you might think – and also praised how “committed” Witherspoon, 48, was to the role of Elle in the film.

He also credited Guthrie for her bend-and-lock move: “The form was perfect.”

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Asked about the update on Legal blonde 3 and will he be in it, Wilson told Guthrie and Kotb, 60, “Well, I hope so. That would be really fun to do.”

“You never know. But I’m sure Reese and I can still do it at some point,” he continued, adding of their on-air sabbatical, “And it should really inspire Reese!”

Witherspoon confirmed that she is reprising her role as Elle in the third part of the beloved franchise back in June 2018. About a year later, she said Entertainment Tonight that she had seen a version of the script but hadn’t shot anything yet.

At the moment a Legal blonde spinoff seriesunder the name Ale, produced by Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine production company and Amazon’s MGM studio. The actress and producer even released a casting for the school version of Ellie Woods for last month’s show.

As for the third film, “I talked to Reese a couple of years ago and some of the other cast members,” Wilson Guthrie said on Today show earlier this year. “I think everyone would be willing to do it. But Reese is such a sharp person and I think she just wants to make sure the script is really good if it gets made.”