We’re cheerleaders! Deliver It On turned an immediate cinematic traditional when it debuted in August 2000, because of knockout performances from Kirsten Dunst, Gabrielle Union and extra solid members.
The comedic movie adopted a gaggle of rival cheerleaders as they competed to win a nationwide championship amid allegations of dishonest, blossoming love and loads of different run-of-the-mill teen drama. Dunst (Torrance Shipman), Union (Isis), Eliza Dushku (Missy Pantone) and Jesse Bradford (Cliff Pantone) led the solid.
“[I was shooting] in Prague, and I bear in mind not turning it down, precisely, however not being tremendous certain about it,” Dunst informed Leisure Weekly in October 2015. “I used to be like, ‘A cheerleading film?’ It sounded prefer it may have been only a tacky teen film, however what sealed the deal for me was speaking to the director, Peyton Reed, on the telephone — he was simply so good. I agreed to do it principally due to Peyton.”
Union, for her half, didn’t should audition as a result of her earlier roles in teen movies like 10 Issues I Hate About You and She’s All That, however that doesn’t imply the position got here simply to her. “I performed soccer, basketball and observe, and nothing can put together you for what cheerleaders undergo,” she admitted. “These rehearsals had been among the decrease factors in my life — I questioned my very existence. The whole lot harm. That’s most likely why there are quite a lot of close-ups of me, not broad photographs.”
The fan fervor surrounding the film has caught with the solid too. “Even after I’m selling totally different films or my TV present, individuals nonetheless need to discuss Deliver It On,” Union famous. “Once I run into Katie Couric, it’s the very first thing she talks about.”
Those that love Deliver It On don’t at all times get the quotes proper, although. “I get traces from the spoof — ‘It’s already been broughten,’” Union mentioned. “I don’t remind them that that really wasn’t in our film.”
Dunst, in the meantime, was none the wiser till her costar stuffed her in. “That wasn’t?” she replied, laughing. “I assumed it was.”
Whereas celebrating the movie’s twentieth anniversary in August 2020, the solid threw round concepts for a possible sequel. “Kirsten, possibly we’re, like, coheads of the PTA,” Union instructed, to which Dunst replied: “Or we run a cheer college, like [on the Netflix docuseries] Cheer.”
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