Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, & Blonde (2003)

Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) completes her further education and gets to be an aide in the US Congress. She adopts a campaign against testing products on animals.

When she needs to mobilize a political groundswell, she calls on her old sorority sisters to phone round their contacts. They all do this together in the same room, and the camera pans along a long table of phones, with dizzy preppie girls calling their friends, "Hello, Muffy, it's Becky..." etc.

The last sister is inexplicably an obvious man in drag. He is on screen for only a second or so, long enough for a single line of dialogue, "Hi Alison, it's Cookie."

I think the man-in-drag performer is Billy Francis, credited in the film as Billy Francesca. In the deleted scenes section of the dvd, he appears again. After Elle has delivered a rousing speech to the American public, "Speak Up, America", we see several vignettes where people interpret that with immediate effect, in their own different ways. A middle-aged lady at the hairdressers says, "I want a mohawk!". (You can see that original humorous input must have been in short supply when they wrote the script.)

One of the vignettes shows the Delta-Nu girls with the man in drag in the middle. In a plainly masculine voice, he says "Sisters -- it's time I spoke up. I'm not the girl you think I am ... I'm a Gemini.". Well, they were right to let that sequence hit the cutting-room floor.

For some reason the packaging of the UK dvd version of the film quotes the title as Legally Blond 2: Bigger, Bolder, Blonder but the on-screen title at the start of the actual film is the same as the ordinary US title.

HF February 2004

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