Gabrielle Union Says Her Children Do not Care About Her Most Well-known Film

Gabrielle Union is grateful for her function as Isis within the 2000s hit movie “Carry 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 recognized for her roles in “Assume Like A Man” and “Being Mary Jane,” mirrored on filming the cheerleading flick that has since turn out to be a cult traditional. She additionally joked about why she believes her youngsters won’t give a “flying fig” in regards to the film that made her a star.

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

“Carry It On” premiered in the USA in August 2000, grossing $90.5 million in opposition to an $11 million funds. 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 wrong way up when she learns that her workforce’s cheer routines had been stolen from their cross-town rivals, the East Compton Clovers.

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

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

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

Dunst, in the meantime, noticed the movie’s affect virtually instantly. “I keep in mind there was a bit group of us that went to CityWalk opening weekends and so they 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 believe it was simply forward of its time.”

And whereas Dunst can admire 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, depart good issues the place they’re,” Dunst informed Leisure Weekly in September 2025. “I don’t have to placed on a cheerleading outfit. I don’t even know what I might do, be a coach or one thing? Let’s depart 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 grew to become, like, this complete ‘Carry It On’ factor. I used to be like, hear, in the event that they needed to make one other film, I might make one other film. It could be so enjoyable!”