Gabrielle Unionsays that one of the original trailers for her hit filmBring It Onincluded scenes that were not actually in the movie.
On Sunday, the actress, 49, posted aTikTokaboutBring It On, revealing that the cast had to film additional scenes for the trailer after the 2000 movie was already completed because test audiences wanted to see more of the team her character cheered for, the East Compton Clovers.
“We shot these snippets that you see here after the movie wrapped,” Union said in the clip as scenes from thetrailerplayed. “Because once test audiences saw the movie, they wanted more of the Clovers.”
“So, we shot these only for the trailer, not for the movie, to make people think we were in the movie more than we were,” she added.
In September, Unionopened up to PEOPLEabout the movie and her character, sharing that she has a complicated relationship with her breakout role. TheAmerica’s Got Talentalum also discussed the topic in her recent memoir,You Got Anything Stronger?.
“I was given carte blanche to create Isis from the ground up,” she said. “And what I did was put a muzzle on her.”
Union noted that she wanted Isis “to offer grace” when confronting Dunst’s character.
“I thought that was being the bigger person,” she said. “But instead, I wasn’t giving full voice to the frustration and harm that cultural appropriation causes. I didn’t allow her to be as angry and disappointed and frustrated as she should have been.”
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In the end, Isis' Clovers best the Toros in a competition, and Union said she again “leaned into this whole gracious winner thing.”
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“A young Black girl should have said, ‘Yeah you stole our routines and when you were forced to come up with your own, you weren’t good enough. But I didn’t give her a full voice,” she said.
“I have to acknowledge and be accountable for letting [Isis] down and letting myself down and letting down the audience,” she later added. “I wanted to make her acceptable and all of the things I thought she needed to be to be a respectable Black leader. It’s the constant shape shifting to appeal to folks’ comfort that never even considered yours.”
source: people.com
