On this day, August 25, in 2000, audiences brought their pompoms and their spirit fingers to the movie theater for Bring It On. The teen dramedy followed two cheerleading squads — one from a prestigious dominantly White school and another from an inner-city high school made up of Black students and people of color. When the Rancho Carne High School team finds out that nearly all of their cheers have been stollen from the inner city school, they have to create their own original cheers for an upcoming tournament.
The movie earned an incredibly large following, and furthered the star power of leads Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union. To celebrate the film’s anniversary, let’s take a look back to see the stars then and what they have accomplished up to now! Gabrielle Union was already a bonafide star by the time she took on the role of Isis. Before the film, she appeared in series like 7th Heaven and Sister, Sister, with Bring It On proving that she had the talent and range for a big screen project.
While Union has gone on to maintain a flourishing career and personal life, Kirsten Dunst has had the same good fortune as her co-star! Like Union, Dunst already had a successful career prior to Bring It On. As a child actress, she appeared in films like Jumanji, Little Women, and Interview with the Vampire. Following the box office success of Bring It On, Kirsten earned the coveted role of Mary Jane Watson in the Spider-Man trilogy.
This cast has seriously accomplished so much since their Cheer-ocracy days. To see more stars from the movie then and now like Kirsten and Gabrielle, check out the gallery above!