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Sarah El-Mahmoud

The Story Behind How Legally Blonde’s Iconic ‘Bend And Snap’ Came Out Of A Failed B-Plot

Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods in salon in Legally Blonde.

Legally Blonde is one of those great movies from the 2000s that’s brimming with one-liners we still repeat to this day. In honor of its 25th anniversary, one of the movie’s writers shared an amusing anecdote I’ve always been curious about. How did the amazing “bend and snap” scene come to be?

Kirsten Smith has previously called the invention of the bend and snap a “spontaneous invention” that was the result of “a completely drunken moment in a bar”. But there’s much more to it. In her words:

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