Josh Lucas wants Reese Witherspoon to do 'Sweet Home Alabama' sequel

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While Witherspoon's busy schedule may be holding up the continuation of Melanie and Jake's love story, Lucas couldn't be more proud of his co-star's success. Josh Lucasis ready to return toSweet Home Alabama! ET's Cassie DiLaura spoke to the 51-year-oldYellowstoneactor, who revealed that he's eagerly awaitingReese Witherspoon's go-ahead to make a sequel to their film, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in September.

Upon returning to the States, he was still receiving offers as high school/college boyfriends and felt he was not getting the age-appropriate roles he sought. While working with George C. Scott on a TV-movie from the In the Heat of the Night series, Scott told him he needed to take acting lessons and develop his talent for both stage and screen. Shortly thereafter, he departed Hollywood and moved to New York City, where he studied privately with various acting coaches. Other projects included the horror-thriller Child of Darkness, Child of Light, an adaptation of James Patterson's novel Virgin, a tale of two Catholic schoolgirls who find themselves pregnant under mysterious and supernatural circumstances. "What I am struck by more than anything is the level of passion and the family-like atmosphere that this crew and cast has together," Lucas said.

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After spending some time in her hometown, she realizes it may not be as easy as she once thought to give up that part of herself, and that she may have judged her old life too harshly. Witherspoon has spoken about what a "magical" experience it was for her to film some scenes of "Sweet Home Alabama."

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Josh Lucas and Reese Witherspoon starred as childhood soulmates in the 2002 hit Sweet Home Alabama

In 2011, Lucas co-starred with Rachael Taylor in the film Red Dog, based on the true story of an Australian Kelpie. He also starred in the NBC television show The Firm, which takes place ten years after the John Grisham novel it is based on. He appeared as an American businessman in Jule Gilfillan's romantic comedy-drama Restless.

"The whole life is super complicated," Lucas said. "Patrick Dempsey's character is still in the picture. But that's just a proposal." Lucas understands that the A-lister is busy, and he predicted her success back at the start of the 2000s. Jake finally signs the divorce papers, but in the middle of her wedding ceremony to Andrew, Melanie learns she had yet to ink the documents. 'We're not making a sequel that I know of, but if Disney wants to make a sequel they can just call me,' she said during a Q&A on Facebook back in 2016. Overall, the actor was down to revisit the role of Jake Perry.

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He plays a younger version of Costner's character on the show, a job he calls "remarkable," saying he is impressed by "the passion of the fans and the people who love the show." Josh Lucas was cast as a young John Dutton before Yellowstone even premiered on Paramount, but it would take five seasons before the character’s backstory would actually start to unspool. Here, the actor best known for A Beautiful Mind and Sweet Home Alabama talks about the interminable wait to hang out on the Montana ranch with everyone else. The original movie stars Reese as a fashion designer who leaves her small town life to find success in New York. "I would love to. I've campaigned her. I'm not gonna say that she's the problem, but I think part of it is that Reese is so busy," he told ET.

Despite Witherspoon’s career potentially holding up the prospective sequel, Lucas says that he is immensely proud of Witherspoon’s rise to stardom. The reality is, I look at a movie like Dances With Wolves and what Kevin Costner did in that movie. I mean, sure – they have doubles but he did a lot of the stuff with those buffalos.

She has spoken about how "magical" it was to film some of the scenes. One scene in particular, which she thinks has touched fans the most, was inside the Tiffany's store, which her new film, "Something From Tiffany's," reminded her of. Josh Lucas says he is ready to film a sequel to "Sweet Home Alabama," saying he is waiting for Reese Witherspoon to free up time in her busy schedule. I’m not gonna say that she’s the problem, but I think part of it is that Reese is so busy,” said the 51-year-old actor. Lucas said Thursday that he is ready to return for a potential sequel to the 2002 hit “Sweet Home Alabama” provided that his co-star Reese Witherspoon is open to returning as well, exclusively reports Entertainment Tonight. I ride but I don’t ride at any sort of extreme level.

Lucas said he's spoken to her about playing Melanie Smooter before but after her acting career exploded it's very difficult for her to find time to sign up to a sequel. Yet despite his enthusiasm to get back to playing Jake Perry, there is one major roadblock - his co-star Reese Witherspoon has no time due to her thriving career. Meanwhile, director Andy Tennant, previously revealed he’s written a treatment for a sequel. "I think I was like, 24 years old, and it was a night shoot, so we were up all night, and they had closed down the whole store, so we were allowed to walk around and look at all the jewelry, everything," she said. Furious son, 27, who mowed down his mother's lover leaving him struggling to walk after learning of their...

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I would lie in bed the night before a new school and decide who I was going to be. It would usually be based on someone I admired from the school before. Check out Kevin Costner, Kelly Reilly, and more of the "Yellowstone" cast in the many roles they've played through the years.

"And yes, I'm airing this publicly because there are a lot of women accepting much less than thy deserve because there are kids in the picture," she explained. "You're not stupid for hoping, for believing that people can change. I see you." Jessica Ciencin Henriquez hasaccused her ex-husband, Sweet Home Alabama actorJosh Lucas, of cheating on her. In a statement posted to Twitter, Jessica Ciencin Henriquez said her ex-husband, Josh Lucas, cheated on her "in the middle of a pandemic."

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And I remember genuinely thinking, this guy’s crazy. Like, I just remember having that moment where the idea that a television show goes more than one or two years is fairly unique or rare, much less five seasons. And the idea that he had all of the seasons in his head? He just knew that the flashbacks would be quite substantial. Maybe, if Josh Lucas has anything to say about it. The Sweet Home Alabama star addressed the film possibly getting a sequel with SiriusXM's Pop Culture Spotlight with Jessica Shaw.

The Story Behind "Sweet Home Alabama"

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This band was always about just playing the music, but those songs have become a soundtrack to a lot of people’s lives. “Sweet Home Alabama” is still played on the radio a lot, and when people hear the first little beat of it, their reaction is to sing. If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that’s a powerful thing and a beautiful thing. Now there are people saying roll tide with it and there is a new generation who hears it and relates.

In September 2007, Alabama governor Bob Riley announced that the phrase "Sweet Home Alabama" would be used to promote Alabama state tourism in a multimillion-dollar ad campaign. In 2009, the state of Alabama began using the phrase as an official slogan on motor-vehicle license plates, and Riley noted that the song is the third most-played that refers to a specific destination. The song remains a staple in southern and classic rock, and is arguably the band's signature song. By all accounts, there was no real "feud" between the artists.

The Real Story Behind the Song "Sweet Home Alabama"

The band remains connected to Muscle Shoals, where it has recorded on numerous occasions and where it regularly performs during concert tours.

Kid Rock's 2008 song "All Summer Long" interpolates "Sweet Home Alabama" on the chorus and uses the guitar solo and piano outro, as well as the "turn it up" shout before the guitar solo; Billy Powell is featured on the track. "All Summer Long" also samples Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London", which has similar chord progression to "Sweet Home Alabama". Consuming that many calories required activity, so that morning we did what we always do — we took a long walk, this time up on the "mountain" as we call the steep, rising slope of Monte Sano, which you can see from Mother's backyard.

"All Summer Long"

"We wrote 'Sweet Home Alabama' as a joke," Van Zant clarified a few years following the release. "We didn't even think about it. The words just came out that way. We just laughed like hell and said, 'Ain't that funny.' We love Neil Young. We love his music." Lynyrd Skynyrd had recorded demos in Muscle Shoals with Johnson as a producer/recording engineer in 1971 and 1972, and Johnson helped refine many of the songs on the Pronounced album.

We travel all over the world and it seems like the South is the place where the people are nicest and they think of the fellow man more. In the late 1960s, in Jacksonville, Florida, a clean-cut gym teacher named Leonard Skinner sent student Gary Rossington to the principal’s office because his hair touched his collar. The teenager’s shaggy mop was a brazen violation of Robert E. Lee High School’s dress code. When Rossington and some of his friends and schoolmates—singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Allen Collins, drummer Bob Burns, and bassist Larry Junstrom—were searching for a new name for their fledgling rock group—they drew on memories of the incident. Lynyrd Skynyrd (vowels changed “to protect the guilty”) was born. It seemed like you could see North Alabama with a wide-angle lens from that spot.

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The 2002 hit movie Sweet Home Alabama stars Reese Witherspoon as Melanie Carmichael, Josh Lucas as Jake Perry, Patrick Dempsey as Andrew Hennings, and Candice Bergen as Mayor Kate Hennings—Andrew's intimidating and oftentimes controlling mom. While you might think this all-star cast is enough to secure blockbuster success, it is really the script that the film is best known for. Sometimes cheesy ("What'd you want to marry me for anyhow?") and sometimes razor-sharp ("You can't ride two horses with one ass, sugarbean"), it always captures that unmistakable charm of something said with a Southern accent. For that reason, it has climbed the ranks as one of the most quotable movies out there.

Ronnie and I were sitting there, and he kept saying, play that again. The next morning she made her country breakfast, with sausage, country ham and bacon accompanied by eggs scrambled so lightly they had to be anchored to our plates with biscuits and two kinds of gravy. We sang complexly written and arranged music by Broadway songwriters with four- or five-part harmonies. In those days, music stores were everywhere, and they sold a lot of arrangements for small vocal groups, pieces from composers like Sigmund Romberg and Rodgers and Hart.

We had toured there, going all around playing clubs and National Guard armories. When we were out in the country driving all the time, we would listen to the radio. Neil Young had “Southern Man,” and it was kind of cutting the South down.

"The Swampers" is a reference to the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. These musicians, who crafted the "Muscle Shoals Sound", were inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1995 for a Lifework Award for Non-Performing Achievement and into the Musicians' Hall of Fame in 2008. The nickname "The Swampers" was coined by producer Denny Cordell during a recording session by singer/songwriter Leon Russell, in reference to the band's "swampy" sound. I love being Southern because of the people and the fans we have.

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"Southern man better keep your head," went the chorus of the former. "Don't forget what your good book said/ Southern change gonna come at last/ Now your crosses are burning fast." Young had expressed his disappointment with racism in the South in two songs, "Southern Man" and "Alabama". The song is credited to Matthew Shafer, Waddy Wachtel, R.J. Ritchie, Leroy Marinell, Warren Zevon, Edward King, Gary Rossington and Ronnie Van Zant. Since "All Summer Long"'s release, the original song has also charted at number 44 on the UK Singles Chart.

And so Ronnie just said, We need to show people how the real Alabama is. In 1977, a tragic airplane crash in Mississippi killed three members of the band, including Van Zant. A decade later, the band reformed with Van Zant’s younger brother Johnny as the lead singer. He’s still the frontman today, and the band recently released a live album, is working on a new studio album, and is on tour . Called "Sweet Home Alabama," the single reached number eight on U.S. charts—its popularity due, at least in part, to a controversy hidden in the verses.

When we were children, the public schools still offered an excellent music program, and my cousin Sandra and I studied under a Russian violin teacher named Ara Zerounian. We had piano lessons, of course, and since everyone in my family sang, the girls and I started singing together. Van Zant grew up listening to Young and regularly rocked a "Tonight's the Night" t-shirt—most notably, on the cover of the band's album Street Survivors.