We are cheerleaders! Bring It On turned an instantaneous cinematic traditional when it debuted in August 2000, due to knockout performances from Kirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union and extra forged members.
The comedic movie adopted a gaggle of rival cheerleaders as they competed to win a nationwide championship amid allegations of dishonest, blossoming love and loads of different run-of-the-mill teen drama. Dunst (Torrance Shipman), Union (Isis), Eliza Dushku (Missy Pantone) and Jesse Bradford (Cliff Pantone) led the forged.
“[I was shooting] in Prague, and I remember not turning it down, exactly, but not being super sure about it,” Dunst instructed Entertainment Weekly in October 2015. “I was like, ‘A cheerleading movie?’ It sounded like it could have been just a cheesy teen movie, but what sealed the deal for me was talking to the director, Peyton Reed, on the phone — he was just so smart. I agreed to do it mostly because of Peyton.”
Union, for her half, didn’t must audition as a consequence of her earlier roles in teen movies like 10 Things I Hate About You and She’s All That, however that doesn’t imply the position got here simply to her. “I played soccer, basketball and track, and nothing can prepare you for what cheerleaders go through,” she admitted. “Those rehearsals were some of the lower points in my life — I questioned my very existence. Everything hurt. That’s probably why there are a lot of close-ups of me, not wide shots.”
The fan fervor surrounding the film has caught with the forged too. “Even when I’m promoting different movies or my TV show, people still want to talk about Bring It On,” Union famous. “When I run into Katie Couric, it’s the first thing she talks about.”
Those who love Bring It On don’t all the time get the quotes proper, although. “I get lines from the spoof — ‘It’s already been broughten,’” Union mentioned. “I don’t remind them that that actually wasn’t in our movie.”
Dunst, in the meantime, was none the wiser till her costar crammed her in. “That wasn’t?” she replied, laughing. “I thought it was.”
While celebrating the movie’s twentieth anniversary in August 2020, the forged threw round concepts for a possible sequel. “Kirsten, maybe we’re, like, coheads of the PTA,” Union steered, to which Dunst replied: “Or we run a cheer school, like [on the Netflix docuseries] Cheer.”
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