Cheers to Gabrielle Union for spilling this pipping scorching “Deliver It On” tea.
Union — who starred as “Isis,” the supreme pom-pom princess of the Clovers cheerleading squad, within the cult-classic — has followers of the flick flipping out over claims she and her black forged mates have been deceptively highlighted within the 2000 movie’s trailer.
“Story time!,” exclaimed the 49-year-old actress on the high of a now-viral TikTok video, which options footage from the official “Deliver It On” teaser.
“So, we shot these snippets that you simply see right here after the film wrapped, as a result of as soon as test-audiences noticed the film they needed extra of the Clovers,” she defined as clips of herself and her co-stars of shade performed within the background.
“We shot these [scenes] just for the trailer, not for the film, to make individuals suppose we have been within the film greater than we have been. The tip,” mentioned Union in her eye-popping publish, which has commanded over 1.9 million views.
The 2-decades-old comedy — which additionally stars Kirsten Dunst, 39, Eliza Dushku, 41, and Jesse Bradford, 42 — follows the rah-rah rivalry between the prominently white “Toros” cheer group from San Diego, California and the unapologetically black “Clovers” cheerleaders of East Compton.
And mind-blown film buffs have been shocked to study that they’d been bamboozled by the movie’s false commercial.
“We have been black-fished,” a surprised commentator wrote, likening the film’s deceptive trailer ways to these of a web-based courting Catfish. “That’s so evil. Why couldn’t they've simply given y’all extra scenes,” mentioned one other.
Different infuriated followers took to Twitter, venting their frustrations over the flick’s fraudulent adverts saying: “We actually bought robbed [with] ‘Deliver It On,’” and “[We] want a ‘Deliver It On’ tell-all docuseries instantly.
To date, no different members of the star-studded “Deliver It On” forged have brazenly commented on Union’s jaw-dropping revelation.
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