If it took a village, it took a village."ġ0. "So teaching them about marks and where the light is and where the cameras are…It was one of those movies where everyone wanted to get it right and everyone was committed to humbling themselves to do the work.
"It was their first time acting, period," Union explained to MTV. We were hot and they reached out to us."īecause it was their film debut, they turned to Union for guidance. "And we were represented by Johnny Wright and Lisa Lopes, she was our mentor and had creative control. "We were at the height of our career," DeVoe told the Observer. The members of the R&B girl group Blaque, Shamari DeVoe, Brandi Williams and the late Natina Reed, were offered the parts of three East Compton Clovers, no audition necessary. "So it's interesting, the group that didn't want to commit to diversity didn't seem to do well and the movie that was about righting the wrongs did well, and that included diversity."ĩ. "The cheerleading movie I wanted about bank robbing -they didn't want to go Black on any of the characters," she revealed to MTV.
There was a very pointed reason Union, who had previously appeared in teen hits 10 Things I Hate About You and She's All That, signed on to the movie. And Reed revealed to Buzzfeed that Union was "instrumental" in finding the character's voice. "We worked a lot on her character when we were doing revisions for the script," he said.Ħ. The inspiration for Gabrielle Union's Isis, the captain of the East Compton Clovers, was Michael Jordan. "I read it and was like, 'Oh, this is a fun movie.'"ĥ. Dunst, who was 17 at the time, was always a top choice for the producers, though she had turned them down several times before finally taking the part after shooting "depressing, bad indie film," she told MTV News.
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