After teasing a sequel to 'Deliver it On' for years, Gabrielle confirmed that she's been 'creating' a movie in regards to the East Compton Clover cheerleaders.
Gabrielle Union had Deliver It On followers going wild after she confirmed a sequel to the 2000 cheerleading comedy is within the works! The 50-year-old actress, who starred as Kirsten Dunst’s rival Isis within the authentic movie, revealed she is “creating” a movie centering round Isis’ highschool cheer squad, the East Compton Clovers. “We’ve been creating a sequel that facilities on the [Clovers],” Gabrielle advised ETon Friday, January 20, including, “We're engaged on it.”
The affirmation comes solely 4 months after the actress hinted at a doable sequel on her Twitter. Replying to a tweet from a fan who was celebrating the twenty second anniversary of the movie, Gabrielle wrote, “Hmmmm so Isis may need a teen #BringItOn.”
Followers, in fact, didn't take this calmly, as they bombarded social media with feedback like, “SO YOU’RE SAYING THERES A CONTINUATION?!?!!!!!!!!! we neeeeed a clovers centered #BringItOn.” One other wrote, “Please don’t play with my feelings, we'd like an actual sequel.” Pop star Chloe Bailey even jumped in to supply her performing providers, tweeting, “i wanna be aside.”
Gabrielle, who shares kids Zaya, 14, and Kaavia, 3, with Dwyane Wade, shot to stardom in Deliver It On alongside Kirsten. Nonetheless, Gabrielle just lately shared that she has some regrets about her function within the movie. Throughout a go to to Good Morning America, she expressed issues about “muzzling” her character Isis, whom she additionally penned an apology letter to in her e-book “You Bought Something Stronger?
Within the film, Isis learns her staff’s choreography has been stolen by a rival staff, which might make anybody rightfully upset, however Gabrielle mentioned she felt she couldn’t play it that manner. “Black women aren’t allowed to be indignant. Definitely not demonstratively indignant, and I muzzled her,” she defined. “I had muzzled her and made her this gracious, respectable chief, and I used to be nonetheless a villain in that film. I did all that shape-shifting for a personality, after which I noticed I used to be doing that to myself, too. I wasn’t permitting myself the total vary of my humanity.”
With that in thoughts, Gabrielle mentioned she would have positively made modifications to her efficiency. “I might have allowed her full humanity, and a part of being a full human is the power to specific rage when harmed,” she detailed. “While you don’t actually permit your self your full vary of emotion and also you muzzle your personal feelings, it permits folks to assume, ‘Possibly what I did wasn’t that unhealthy.’ I might have given her all of the anger.”
Though she could have had some reservations about the best way she dealt with the unique manufacturing, Gabrielle is clearly on board for the sequel. Even earlier than her affirmation to ET and her cryptic tweet, the star had thrown round concepts for a second act throughout a Zoom reunion in August 2020 with Kirsten and director Peyton Reed. “The affect, 20 years later, that this film had and continues to have, that’s superior,” Gabrielle mentioned. “So no matter that we could sooner or later provide you with, I imply, Kirsten, possibly we’re like co-heads of the PTA. I don’t know.”