Luke Wilson Debuts Shocking Blonde Hair Transformation in L.A.

Luke Wilson is taking hair cues from Elle Woods.

The Legally Blonde actor, 54, debuted lightened locks at the 93rd Hollywood Christmas Parade on Sunday, November 30. He wore a blue-and-red flannel shirt, dark blue pants and a gray blazer to the event. 

In the past few years, Luke — the typically brown-haired brother of Owen Wilson, a natural blonde — has voiced enthusiasm at the prospect of making a third film in the Legally Blonde franchise. He famously played Emmett Richmond, the love interest of Reese Witherspoon’s inimitable heroine. (Emmett and Elle got married in the 2003 sequel.)

Luke addressed a potential new movie in 2022 after reuniting with his fellow cast members.

“I think I know as much as you all, but we did have a Zoom-call get-together last summer where the whole cast — Jennifer [Coolidge], Matthew [Davis], Selma [Blair] — all got together and talked, so it really was great to see everybody,” he told Good Morning America that year. “Reese is such a sharp individual, I think she’s probably just waiting for the script to be right and the time to be right. It’ll be really fun to make another movie.”

In 2020, Luke exclusively told Us Weekly, “Of course [I’d do it]. As for the Legally Blonde that we’re hearing about now — I don’t know anything than the usual man on the street. And that’s really the truth. I’ve heard they’re writing it and trying to put it together, but they’re keeping it pretty firmly under wraps.”

Luke’s other major film credits include The Family Stone, the holiday classic where he portrays Diane Keaton’s slacker son, and Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, opposite Owen, 57. He also starred in Old School, My Super Ex-Girlfriend and The Skeleton Twins.

While Legally Blonde 3 remains in development, Witherspoon, 49, spun off the prequel Elle, casting Lexi Minetree in a Prime Video series focused on Elle’s teen years. The show is expected to be released next year. 

“I loved working with Reese, and definitely, that’s one of those movies where I never had that happen before to such a degree where when it came out, I’d go back to Texas and there would be little squadrons of girls who would come up at that age, like, 8 to 12 and 14, and they would have all these questions about Elle,” Wilson previously told Us. 

“They’d ask where she was and what she was doing and was she as great as she seemed,” he continued. “It’s just a good feeling. It’s one thing to make a movie people like, it’s another thing to make a movie that does well, but to have one that gets legs because of how people feel about it, that is a great feeling. To have a movie make a jump to generations.”