College Secrets Revealed: Legally Blonde Edition, Where Fun is the Name of the Game
11. Davis was a mix of scared and excited for his first major film role as Warner. “I was so out of my league,” he remembered during the 2020 reunion. “I literally was just off the back of the turnip truck out of Salt Lake City, Utah. I couldn’t get out of Utah fast enough and I stumbled my way into this movie called Legally Blonde.” Very inexperienced and having a bit of a crush on his costars (“I think he had a crush on everybody,” Cauffiel told The New York Times), “I was nervous every step of the way,” he confessed.
His very first scene involved breaking up with Witherspoon. “I sat down and all of sudden Elle Woods was there,” he recalled, “and Elle Woods was so big and so full of life and I realized that all my choices were wrong.”
12. Two decades later, he still receives criticism for the insensitive way Warner ended things with his college sweetheart mid-dinner date (“If I’m going to be a senator by the time I’m 30, I need to stop dicking around”) before proposing to his “Jackie”, fellow Harvard law student Vivian Kensington (Selma Blair).
Despite appearing in roles on Damages, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and Legacies, “For years and years people would say ‘You’re that a–hole from Legally Blonde!'” he shared during the virtual reunion, prompting Witherspoon to defend him. “I’m here to tell people Matthew Davis is the nicest person!” she insisted. “He was just playing a character.”