Is Legally Blonde 3 still happening? Reese Witherspoon says yes, but only if it "comes together in the right way," according to a new interview. Thankfully, the star and producer has found an unlikely muse in Tom Cruise's Top Gun: Maverick.

"I'm still hoping that Legally Blonde 3 is gonna come together in the right way," Witherspoon told USA Today. "It's just like Top Gun: They waited a long time to make another version of that movie, and I loved the nostalgia piece they incorporated in it. So definitely that gave us a lot of inspiration about what we would want to do with Elle Woods and make sure that we had all those same touchstones that mattered to people (back) then. I feel like these characters are my friends, so I safeguard them. I would never make the subpar, mediocre version of their story."