Gabrielle Union Says She Regrets Bending To Respectability In Her Iconic "Bring It On" Role

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her most iconic film roles. During an appearance on Good Morning America on Tuesday, Union revealed that if she had the chance to do things over, she’d approach her role as Clovers cheer captain Isis in 2000 teen comedy classic Bring It On quite a bit differently.  “I made her gracious, this decent kind leader,” she said. “I was given full reign to do whatever I wanted with Isis in Bring It On, and I chose respectability and to be classy and take the high road because I felt like that would make her be appropriate — the right kind of Black girl.”  Union says that while striving to make Isis the picture of poise in the face of being robbed and erased, she removed her right to be angry and emotive; a right of which Black women and girls are