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Gabrielle Union had Bring It On fans going chaotic aft she confirmed a sequel to the 2000 cheerleading drama is successful the works! The 50-year-old actress, who starred as Kirsten Dunst’s rival Isis successful the archetypal film, revealed she is “developing” a movie centering astir Isis’ precocious schoolhouse cheer squad, the East Compton Clovers. “We’ve been processing a sequel that centers connected the [Clovers],” Gabrielle told ET on Friday, January 20, adding, “We are moving connected it.”
Gabrielle Union confirmed she is moving connected a sequel to ‘Bring it On.’ (DIGGZY/Shutterstock)The confirmation comes lone 4 months aft the histrion hinted astatine a imaginable sequel connected her Twitter. Replying to a tweet from a instrumentality who was celebrating the 22nd day of the film, Gabrielle wrote, “Hmmmm truthful Isis mightiness person a teen #BringItOn.”
Fans, of course, did not instrumentality this lightly, arsenic they bombarded societal media with comments like, “SO YOU’RE SAYING THERES A CONTINUATION?!?!!!!!!!!! we neeeeed a clovers focused #BringItOn.” Another wrote, “Please don’t play with my emotions, we request a existent sequel.” Pop star Chloe Bailey adjacent jumped successful to connection her acting services, tweeting, “i wanna beryllium apart.”
Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union starred successful 2000’s ‘Bring It On.’ (Everett Collection)Gabrielle, who shares children Zaya, 14, and Kaavia, 3, with Dwyane Wade, changeable to stardom in Bring It On alongside Kirsten. However, Gabrielle precocious shared that she has immoderate regrets astir her relation successful the film. During a sojourn to Good Morning America, she expressed concerns astir “muzzling” her quality Isis, whom she besides penned an apology missive to successful her publication “You Got Anything Stronger?
In the movie, Isis learns her team’s choreography has been stolen by a rival team, which would marque anyone rightfully upset, but Gabrielle said she felt she couldn’t play it that way. “Black girls aren’t allowed to beryllium angry. Certainly not demonstratively angry, and I muzzled her,” she explained. “I had muzzled her and made her this gracious, decent leader, and I was inactive a villain successful that movie. I did each that shape-shifting for a character, and past I realized I was doing that to myself, too. I wasn’t allowing myself the afloat scope of my humanity.”
Gabrielle Union said she is making a sequel to ‘Bring It On’ that centers astir the Compton Clovers. (Everett Collection)With that successful mind, Gabrielle said she would person decidedly made changes to her performance. “I would person allowed her afloat humanity, and portion of being a afloat quality is the quality to explicit rage erstwhile harmed,” she detailed. “When you don’t truly let yourself your afloat scope of emotion and you muzzle your ain emotions, it allows radical to think, ‘Maybe what I did wasn’t that bad.’ I would person fixed her each the anger.”
Although she whitethorn person had immoderate reservations astir the mode she handled the archetypal production, Gabrielle is evidently connected committee for the sequel. Even earlier her confirmation to ET and her cryptic tweet, the prima had thrown astir ideas for a 2nd enactment during a Zoom reunion in August 2020 with Kirsten and director Peyton Reed. “The impact, 20 years later, that this movie had and continues to have, that’s awesome,” Gabrielle said. “So immoderate that we whitethorn 1 time travel up with, I mean, Kirsten, possibly we’re similar co-heads of the PTA. I don’t know.”
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