Josh Lucasis more than willing to revisitSweet Home Alabama— and he’s putting the pressure on leading ladyReese Witherspoon.
The actor, who costarred with Witherspoon in the hit 2002 romantic comedy, is ready to take on a sequel and find out what childhood soulmates Melanie and Jake are up to.
“I’m up for it. I know Reese’s said she is as well,” LucastoldETat the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual grants banquet on Wednesday. “The director [Andy Tennant] is absolutely up for it. I spoke to him about it a couple of times recently. So look, I throw it out to you, Reese. I think the person who’s the one to put it together is Reese, so I’m hoping. Who knows? She’s got a lot of irons in the fire to say the least. Hopefully this is one of them.”
Witherspoon, 43, previously said in a Facebook Live Q&A back in 2016 session that she’d behappy to revisit Melanieonscreen: “We are not making a sequel that I know of, but if Disney wants to make a sequel they can just call me. I would happily makeSweet Home Alabama 2.”
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Lucas first revealed he had spoken “extensively” with the original film’s writer and director, Andy Tennant, about a potential storyline for a sequel back in April of this year.
So what would Jake and Melanie’s relationship look like now, after their happily ever after inSweet Home Alabamamade viewers’ hearts melt?
“The proposal that Andy Tennant — the director — had, which was quite interesting, is that my character is back in Alabama,” Lucas shared, “and Reese’s character is in New York with our kidsand we’re divorced, so [their] whole life is super complicated.”
“AndPatrick Dempsey‘s character is still in the picture,” he added with a laugh of Melanie’s would-be husband, whom she eventually breaks things off with when she realizes she still loves Jake. “But that’s just a proposal.”
source: people.com
