Josh Lucasis ready to travel back to the deep South.
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Josh Lucas.
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.”
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“I think it would be so fascinating and obviously I don’t know where it would go, but I think it would be so fascinating to see where these two characters and the children and where everyone ended up,” he said. “Are they still together? Are they divorced? Do they want to be back together?”
“There’s so many different ideas … we allknow life is long and complex, and they had an interesting relationship to begin with, the two characters,” the actor explained. “The fact that they were together from when they were children, I would love to see what’s going on 20 years later.”
Almost two years earlier, Witherspoon, 43, said in a Facebook Live Q&A 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.”
Breakthrough —also starringChrissy Metz,Marcel Ruiz,Topher GraceandMike Colter— is in theaters now.
source: people.com
