Lexi Minetree and Reese Witherspoon. Kate Green/Getty Images for Prime Video, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Lexi Minetree used the pink carpet to pay homage to her Elle predecessor Reese Witherspoon at the London premiere of the new prequel show on Tuesday.
The Elle actress and executive producer already look eerily similar, despite sharing no DNA. But if you took a look at Minetree’s fashions at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on Tuesday and thought she might be Witherspoon, that’s because Witherspoon has already worn the look.
At the U.K. premiere of the Prime Video series, Minetree wore the same Stella McCartney dress Witherspoon herself sported at the 2014 Met Gala. The theme was “Charles James: Beyond Fashion,” and the Academy Award winner was styled by Leslie Framer.
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Reese Witherspoon attends the “Charles James: Beyond Fashion” Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2014 in New York. What’s more is Molly Dickson, who styled Minetree for the London showing, is the former assistant of Framer, according to Women’s Wear Daily.
This isn’t the first time Dickson has winked at Witherspoon’s fashions during her own press run as Elle Woods. The stylist borrowed from Witherspoon’s very own personal archives when dressing Minetree for her appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon; the Elle actress wore the exact same Marc Jacobs dress Witherspoon wore to the Legally Blonde premiere in 2001.
Elle arrived on the streamer on Wednesday, serving as a Legally Blonde prequel series, spotlighting Elle Woods’ time high school.
Angie Han pointed out Minetree’s striking similarity to Witherspoon in The Hollywood Reporter‘s Elle review, which reads, “Much of Elle’s initial draw rests on the lead performance by Minetree, which hews uncannily close to Reese Witherspoon’s from the movie. Not only does Minetree look more like Witherspoon (who’s credited as an EP) than Witherspoon’s own daughter, she nails every vocal inflection and physical tic with sweet-as-pie precision.”
Lexi Minetree attends the ‘Elle’ UK Special Screening at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on June 30, 2026 in London, England. THR Newsletters
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