Gabrielle Union Says Her Kids Don’t Care About Her Most Famous Movie

Gabrielle Union is grateful for her position as Isis within the 2000s hit movie “Deliver It On,” however her youngsters, Kaavia, Zaire, Zaya, and Xavier, are fully unimpressed. In a brand new interview alongside her on-screen rival, Kirsten Dunst, the celebrated actress, additionally identified for her roles in “Suppose Like A Man” and “Being Mary Jane,” mirrored on filming the cheerleading flick that has since develop into a cult basic. She additionally joked about why she believes her youngsters may not give a “flying fig” in regards to the film that made her a star.

Talking with PEOPLE, Union, 53, confessed that she would not assume her youngsters have truly seen “Deliver It On” in its entirety. “Our older children, I do not know if it is simply children and their mother and father. They do not care,” she mentioned. “I do not assume I can say that strongly sufficient — completely, positively don’t give a flying fig.”

“Deliver It On” premiered in the US in August 2000, grossing $90.5 million in opposition to an $11 million price range. Along with Union and Dunst, the flick starred Eliza Dushku and Jesse Bradford. The film follows cheerleader Torrance Shipman (Dunst), whose world is flipped the other way up when she learns that her crew’s cheer routines had been stolen from their cross-town rivals, the East Compton Clovers.

Whereas the film may not have gained any Oscars, it has garnered an enormous viewers, and its success and assist have spawned a number of sequels, together with 2004’s “Deliver It On Once more” and 2006’s “Deliver It On: All or Nothing.” The newest movie, “Deliver It On: Cheer or Die,” was launched in 2022.

Elsewhere throughout her interview, Union admitted that being part of the “Deliver It On” neighborhood means “all the things” to her. “Being part of one thing that individuals really feel strongly about, particularly that they really feel positively about, is large and it’s extremely humbling. And also you simply really feel extremely grateful that completely different generations recognize one thing that you’ve got executed,” she mentioned. Union additionally identified how elated she will get when she sees individuals of all ages embracing the magic of “Deliver It On,” calling it a “fairly gratifying however humbling feeling.”

Within the interview, Union and Dunst additionally mirrored on what it was like to observe their movie attain heights they weren’t anticipating, with Union saying the film “rapidly turned its personal factor.” She famous that she first seen the film’s influence when she was in San Francisco a 12 months after its launch and noticed a gaggle of individuals dressed as characters from the movie in a parade.

Dunst, in the meantime, noticed the movie’s influence virtually instantly. “I keep in mind there was a bit of group of us that went to CityWalk opening weekends they usually allow us to sneak in to simply take a look at the theaters,” she mentioned. “And each theater was packed! I did not know that this is able to be so successful, however there’s by no means been a cheerleading film, and I feel it was simply forward of its time.”

And whereas Dunst can recognize the love that followers nonetheless present the film to today, they probably will not be catching the “Energy of the Canine” actress in a revival of any type. “No. I’m like, go away good issues the place they’re,” Dunst instructed Entertainment Weekly in September 2025. “I don’t must placed on a cheerleading outfit. I don’t even know what I’d do, be a coach or one thing? Let’s go away it as it’s.”

Her new place differs vastly from her stance in a 2019 interview with Kelly Clarkson, throughout which she praised Union after studying they had been starring in a Rodarte marketing campaign collectively. “I had no concept that Gabrielle was in it too after which it turned, like, this complete ‘Deliver It On’ factor. I used to be like, pay attention, in the event that they needed to make one other film, I’d make one other film. It could be so enjoyable!”