‘Bring It On’ cast members reunite for the 15 year anniversary

Bring It On just celebrated its 15-year anniversary in Entertainment Weeklys reunions issue.

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Bring It On just celebrated its 15-year anniversary in Entertainment Weekly’s reunions issue.

Ricky Lewis

They’re sexy, they’re cute, they’re popular to boot. The “Bring It On” cast reunites for a spread in Entertainment Weekly years after the movie hit theaters. 

Now 15 years later, “Bring It On” is still giving us all the feels. Eliza Dushku, Gabrielle Union, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Bradford all reunited for the reunion and sat down to answer some questions with Entertainment Weekly.

Would “Bring It On” still be a hit today?

“I think it would be even more edgy, even like the overall themes. I don’t want to say nothing’s changed, but not a lot has changed in terms of our overall themes,” Union said. “I think it would be super relevant – as relevant today as it was 15 years ago.” 

Do you ever watch it on TV?

Dunst said, “I’ll like stick on it for a second for memories. It’s cute and we were so young.” 

Have you watched any of the sequels?

Bradford hasn’t seen any of the sequels, but the rest have.

“I’ve seen a movie that watched ‘Bring It On’ in the movie,” Dunst said. “So you know you’re in a good movie when they’re watching it to rally their team.” 

Dushku also saw the ‘Bring It On’ musical and said, “It was adorable.” 

What do you think your characters would be doing now?

Bradford played the role of Cliff Pantone and said Cliff would have had a drug overdose. Dunst chimed in and thought her and Bradford’s characters would have gotten married and had kids. She also added that her character Torrance Shipman would probably be a soccer mom and also be coaching cheerleading. Union thought her character Isis would be a defense attorney. 

Dushku said, “Missy, she’s a social worker.” 

The cast never thought this low-budget movie would have success like it did. The movie raked in $90 million worldwide since its release and only cost $28 million to make. 

Let’s take a look back at some of the movie’s most iconic moments:

The opening scene: “I’m sexy, I’m cute, I’m popular to boot.” This had to be one of the most memorable moments in the movie because it was the opener, so any true fan should know the words to this song.

Cheer-ocracy: Missy is asked to do one of the hardest tumbling passes at the time this movie was made and she does it flawlessly. Whitney calls out, “Front handspring, step out, roundoff back handspring, step out, round off back handspring full twisting layout.” Torrance, the captain, then goes on to tell Courtney, “This is not a democracy, it’s a cheer-ocracy. I’m sorry but I’m overruling you.”

The “cheer off” between the East Compton Clovers and the Rancho Carne Toros: After the Clovers find out the Toros have been stealing their routines they show up at their home football game and have a cheer off. Obviously, the Clovers are upset and they make a statement to stop stealing their routines. 

“Second place, hell yeah!”: Although the Clovers beat the Toros at high school nationals, the Toros were still ecstatic about their second place win.

And, of course, the grand finale: “Oh Mickey you’re so fine you’re so fine; you blow my mind hey Mickey.”

The creators of “Bring It On” did a great job of adding a catchy song to the end credits. They’ve done this for every sequel since.