{"id":5011907,"date":"2023-01-21T15:26:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T20:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/?p=5011907"},"modified":"2023-01-21T15:26:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T20:26:32","slug":"gabrielle-union-developing-bring-it-on-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hollywoodlife.com\/2023\/01\/21\/gabrielle-union-developing-bring-it-on-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabrielle Union Reveals She\u2019s Working On A \u2018Bring It On\u2019 Sequel 23 Years After Original Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

After teasing a sequel to ‘Bring it On’ for years, Gabrielle confirmed that she’s been ‘developing’ a film about the East Compton Clover cheerleaders.<\/h3>\n

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Gabrielle Union <\/a><\/strong>had Bring It On<\/em><\/a> fans going wild after she confirmed a sequel to the 2000 cheerleading comedy is in the works! The 50-year-old actress, who starred as\u00a0Kirsten Dunst\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> rival Isis in the original film, revealed she is “developing” a film centering around Isis’ high school cheer squad, the East Compton Clovers. “We’ve been developing a sequel that centers on the [Clovers],” Gabrielle told ET<\/em> <\/a>on Friday, January 20, adding, “We are working on it.”<\/p>\n

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Gabrielle Union confirmed she is working on a sequel to ‘Bring it On.’ (DIGGZY\/Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The confirmation comes only four months after the actress hinted at a possible sequel<\/a> on her Twitter<\/a>. Replying to a tweet from a fan who was celebrating the 22nd anniversary of the film, Gabrielle\u00a0wrote, \u201cHmmmm so Isis might have a teenager #BringItOn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fans, of course, did not take this lightly, as they bombarded social media with comments like, \u201cSO YOU\u2019RE SAYING THERES A CONTINUATION?!?!!!!!!!!! we neeeeed a clovers focused\u00a0<\/span>#BringItOn.\u201d Another wrote, \u201cPlease don\u2019t play with my emotions, we need a real sequel.\u201d Pop star\u00a0Chloe Bailey<\/strong> even jumped in to offer her acting services, tweeting, \u201ci wanna be apart.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union starred in 2000’s ‘Bring It On.’ (Everett Collection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gabrielle, who\u00a0shares children\u00a0Zaya<\/strong>, 14, and\u00a0Kaavia<\/strong>, 3<\/a>, with\u00a0Dwyane Wade<\/strong>, shot to stardom in\u00a0Bring It On <\/em><\/a>alongside Kirsten.<\/strong>\u00a0However, Gabrielle recently shared that she has some regrets about her role in the film. During a visit to\u00a0Good Morning America<\/a><\/em>, she expressed concerns about \u201cmuzzling\u201d her character Isis, whom she also penned an apology letter to in her book \u201cYou Got Anything Stronger?<\/p>\n

In the movie, Isis learns her team\u2019s choreography has been stolen by a rival team, which would make anyone rightfully upset, but Gabrielle said she felt she couldn\u2019t play it that way. \u201cBlack girls aren\u2019t allowed to be angry. Certainly not demonstratively angry, and I muzzled her,\u201d she explained. \u201cI had muzzled her and made her this gracious, decent leader, and I was still a villain in that movie. I did all that shape-shifting for a character, and then I realized I was doing that to myself, too. I wasn\u2019t allowing myself the full range of my humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gabrielle Union said she is making a sequel to ‘Bring It On’ that centers around the Compton Clovers. (Everett Collection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With that in mind, Gabrielle said she would have definitely made changes to her performance. \u201cI would have allowed her full humanity, and part of being a full human is the ability to express rage when harmed,\u201d she detailed. \u201cWhen you don\u2019t really allow yourself your full range of emotion and you muzzle your own emotions, it allows people to think, \u2018Maybe what I did wasn\u2019t that bad.\u2019 I would have given her all the anger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although she may have had some reservations about the way she handled the original production, Gabrielle is obviously on board for the sequel. Even before her confirmation to ET<\/em> and her cryptic tweet, the star had thrown around ideas for a second act during a Zoom reunion<\/a>\u00a0in August 2020 with Kirsten and director\u00a0Peyton Reed<\/strong>. \u201cThe impact, 20 years later, that this movie had and continues to have, that\u2019s awesome,\u201d Gabrielle said. \u201cSo whatever that we may one day come up with, I mean, Kirsten, maybe we\u2019re like co-heads of the PTA. I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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