Legally Blonde 3 could be ‘just like Top Gun’, Reese Witherspoon says – she talks sequels, Apple TV+ drama Surface and controlling her narrative
- Reese Witherspoon, executive producer of Apple TV+ series Surface, talks about the drama’s unsettling script, making female-centric projects and representation
- She reveals how the Top Gun sequel inspired Legally Blonde 3 and drops hints about a new project where she will reprise ‘a character I played a long time ago’
If you are missing Big Little Lies, Reese Witherspoon is here to help. The actress and producer, featured in two seasons of the HBO drama, is back behind the camera as executive producer of Apple TV+’s Surface.
Created by Veronica West, the psychological thriller follows a San Francisco woman named Sophie (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) who suffers a traumatic head injury after falling off a boat in an apparent suicide attempt.
With support from her therapist (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) and attentive husband James (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), Sophie attempts to heal and piece her memories back together.
But with the arrival of a mysterious man from her past (Stephan James), she begins to realise that she is not being told the truth of what happened to her – or even who she is.
“It reminded me of Big Little Lies,” Witherspoon, 46, says of the script. “It’s this very affluent community, but there’s this mystery lying underneath it all. It’s unsettling, and as an audience member, you don’t know who to trust.”