Nearly 20 years after the release of Sweet Home Alabama , Josh Lucas is holding out hope for a sequel even if it takes a while to get one made.

Appearing on SiriusXM s Pop Culture Spotlight show this week, Lucas was asked about the 2002 romantic comedy. Though the actor is game to reunite with Reese Witherspoon in an overdue follow-up to the movie, he suggested audiences shouldnt hold their breath given his co-stars busy schedule.

Look, I would love to do the sequel, he told host Jessica Shaw. The issue is Reese has got a book club. Im saying that laughingly, but ... Ive heard like, Oh, you can talk to her about stuff five years from now, now. Shes a mogul.

Lucas isnt wrong. In 2016, Witherspoon co-founded Hello Sunshine , a cross-platform media company dedicated to telling female-driven stories on film, TV and digital platforms. The company has produced such hits as Big Little Lies and The Morning Show , and currently has a spate of projects in development at Netflix , ABC and Amazon .

Witherspoon, an Oscar winner for 2005s Walk the Line, also curates Reeses Book Club x Hello Sunshine , which celebrates female authors and protagonists, both real and fictional.