Mumbai, April 3 (IANS) Actress Reese Witherspoon, who played the pop-culture icon Elle Woods in Legally Blonde and Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, has announced the highly anticipated prequel series ‘Elle’

Lexi Minetree will be seen in the titular role of Elle Woods in the series. Reese Witherspoon shared an exclusive first look image on her Instagram to announce the beginning of production

The joint Instagram post by Reese Witherspoon was shared along with Elle star Lexi Minetree, Amazon MGM Studios, Prime Video and Witherspoon's media company Hello Sunshine. The post featured an image of Minetree, who will be portraying a young Elle Woods in the new series.

"Harvard was hard. High School was harder”, the caption for the post reads. "Our new series, Elle, is now in production”. In February, Witherspoon, who is an executive producer on the highly anticipated project, revealed in a video that Minetree would be taking on the iconic role of Elle Woods in the upcoming series.

Earlier, Reese Witherspoon had shared a proud mom moment, and it is linked to her motherhood. She took to the Stories section of Instagram, and shared a video narrating a story, reports ‘People’ magazine.

The ‘Legally Blonde’ star told a sweet story about a recent night out with her kids that made her feel good about her parenting journey.

As per ‘People’, Reese Witherspoon, 48, explained that she was out recently with a friend and her two "boys," 21-year-old Deacon Phillippe, whom she shares with ex Ryan Phillippe, and 12-year-old Tennessee, whom she shares with ex Jim Toth.

The actor said that over dinner her friend asked her sons if there was one lesson that they will "always remember" that their mom taught them.