1. The movie was primitively called Cheer Fever. 

2. Written by euphony video director Jessica Bendinger, the publication was a hard merchantability and astir didn't get made. "I went to 28 oregon much places and meetings," she told MTV News successful 2015. "I had astir 27 pitches due to the fact that sometimes I'd spell to a workplace and they'd emotion it and they'd instrumentality it to their brag and they go, 'We emotion it!' and instrumentality it their brag and past it would get a walk astatine the 3rd time."

3. Despite being 1 of the astir in-demand actresses of her generation, Kirsten Dunst wasn't the archetypal idiosyncratic to person the portion of Torrance. No, that would beryllium Marley Shelton, who would extremity up ditching the movie to prima successful Sugar and Spice, the 2001 movie astir cheerleaders-turned-bank robbers. Oh my.

4. Dunst, who was 17 astatine the time, was ever a apical prime for the producers, though she had turned them down respective times earlier yet taking the portion after shooting "depressing, atrocious indie film," she told MTV News. "I work it and was like, 'Oh, this is simply a amusive movie.'"

5. The inspiration for Gabrielle Union's Isis, the skipper of the East Compton Clovers, was Michael Jordan. NBD. And Reed revealed to Buzzfeed that Union was "instrumental" successful uncovering the character's voice. "We worked a batch connected her quality erstwhile we were doing revisions for the script," helium said. 

6. There was a precise pointed crushed Union, who had antecedently appeared successful teen hits 10 Things I Hate About You and She's All That, signed connected to the movie. "The cheerleading movie I wanted astir slope robbing [Sugar and Spice]—they didn't privation to spell Black connected immoderate of the characters," she revealed to MTV. "So it's interesting, the radical that didn't privation to perpetrate to diverseness didn't look to bash good and the movie that was astir righting the wrongs did well, and that included diversity."

7. James Franco and Jason Schwartzman were conscionable 2 of the actors who work for Cliff, Torrance's edgy rocker emotion interest. But the apical prime was Jesse Bradford, who was a small hesitant to motion on. "This is aft we've auditioned 300 radical for Cliff and cipher had been similar Jesse," enforcement producer Max Wong told MTV. "He was like, 'Can I get a convertible?' And I was like, 'Of course!' Which was a full lie."

8. For Missy, Cliff's sister and Torrance's unexpected co-captain with a penchant for gymnastics and impermanent tattoos, Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Eliza Duskhu was Reed's lone choice. And she didn't disappoint erstwhile she showed up astatine the audition. "I judge I was a small hungover and I was dressed successful each black," Dushku revealed to MTV. "[Reed] said, 'Can you bash a split?' And I said, 'I don't know, fto maine try,' and I popped into a divided close determination and thought, hey, maybe. You know, that's cool."

9. The members of the R&B miss radical Blaque, Shamari DeVoe, Brandi Williams and the late Natina Reed, were offered the parts of 3 East Compton Clovers, nary audition necessary. "We were astatine the tallness of our career," DeVoe told the Observer. "And we were represented by Johnny Wright and Lisa Lopes, she was our mentor and had originative control. We were blistery and they reached retired to us."

Because it was their movie debut, they turned to Union for guidance. "It was their archetypal clip acting, period," Union explained to MTV. "So teaching them astir marks and wherever the airy is and wherever the cameras are…It was 1 of those movies wherever everyone wanted to get it close and everyone was committed to humbling themselves to bash the work. If it took a village, it took a village."

10. The trailer for Bring It On features scenes with the Clovers not featured successful the movie itself. "We changeable these snippets that you see...after the movie wrapped due to the fact that erstwhile trial audiences saw the movie, they wanted much of the Clovers," Union said connected TikTok successful January 2022. "So we changeable these, lone for the trailer, not for the movie, to marque radical deliberation we were successful the movie much than we were."

11. One of the movie's astir iconic scenes—the teeth-brushing flirtation betwixt Torrance and Cliff—wasn't successful the archetypal script, but was inspired by a real-life moment.  "I retrieve conscionable studying him and what helium was doing, and it was not precise cute," writer Bendinger explained to MTV of her ain awkward bath brushwood with an unnamed suitor. "I retrieve sitting successful my flat and I was like, what astir this?"

But Dunst improv'd 1 cardinal part. "Kirsten came up with a large happening astir shielding the broadside of her rima from him erstwhile she's spitting which I thought was conscionable great," Reed spilled. "That was each Kirsten."

12. Most of choreographer Sparky Polastri's lines were improvised connected the spot by actor Ian Roberts and Reed, who told Buzzfeed, "That relation successful the archetypal publication was comic but bladed and stereotypical." The tone fingers, however, were scripted.

13. Several of the formed members were arrested successful Tjiuana during filming, including Dushku and Bradford. "[They] were connected the formation drinking and got arrested and got thrown into Mexican jail," Wong revealed to MTV News. 

"I privation to spell connected the grounds and accidental nary producers came and bailed america out," Dushku clarified. "There whitethorn person been an incidental successful TJ 1 play but we got ourselves retired of it. I got america retired of it and determination was nary shaper bailing retired happening."

14. Most of the formed went done a four-week cheerleading footwear campy anterior to filming. 

"Not lone did we person to larn the creation regular and the cheers, but we besides did each our ain stunts," Nicole Bilderback, who played Toros subordinate Whitney, told Bustle. "So we had to larn the pyramids; we had to physique up spot for that. We had to larn each the tosses. We learned each that stuff. So it was 8 hours a day, and we'd get a luncheon break. It was tough. It was a batch of work."

15. Securing the rights to Warrant's "Cherry Pie" for a tiny information of the auditions montage would chopped out a significant magnitude of the film's choky $10 cardinal budget. 

"My representation was that it outgo $40,000," Reed recalled successful his Buzzfeed interview. "That was the azygous biggest euphony cue and disbursal we had successful the movie."

16. To marque it connected 1 of the squads, determination was nary faking it erstwhile it came to your resume.

We made everybody travel to the audition having prepared immoderate benignant of a cheer, astir apt the astir humiliating happening you could bash to an actor," Reed told DVD News. "We needed to cognize they astatine slightest had immoderate consciousness of bushed and coordination due to the fact that not lone did they request to act, but they needed to conscionable the carnal demands of the roles."

17. Lin-Manuel Miranda co-wrote the euphony and lyrics for Bring It On: The Musical, which ran connected Broadway for a constricted engagement successful 2012. It received two Tony nominations successful 2013 for "Best Musical" and "Best Choreography."

18. Most of the routines performed by the Toros and the Clovers featured stunts that are considered amerciable successful precocious schoolhouse competitions.

"There are amerciable moves," Reed confirmed successful an interrogation with HuffPost. "There are immoderate collegiate moves successful determination that are not precocious schoolhouse moves...that would astir apt beryllium disqualified. At the time, erstwhile we were making the movie, if 1 of these things came up, we erred connected the broadside of what works dramatically oregon what worked champion for america visually." That's alright, that's OK with us!

19. The film's ending was a constituent of contention among the filmmakers, arsenic determination was a disagreement erstwhile it came to which cheer squad should triumph Nationals. Spoiler alert: The Clovers would instrumentality location the trophy.

"I retrieve determination was a full statement astir who was going to win, and determination were radical successful the premix that were like, 'Well, Kirsten's the lead, the Toros person to win,'" Reed recalled to MTV. "Well, nah, that's not the story...they did an astonishing job. But they came successful 2nd to the different team, and it was a beingness acquisition for her."

20. After the movie amazingly debuted astatine No. 1, bringing successful $22 cardinal domestically erstwhile archetypal tracking reports indicated it would marque conscionable $6 million, immoderate of the stars responded successful epic fashion.

"A bully fig of the girls and I went retired connected the municipality to observe and whitethorn oregon whitethorn not, you know, person jumped successful the excavation astatine Sky Bar and were like, we person a fig 1 movie!" Dushku revealed to MTV.

21. The DVD includes an alternate ending that finds Torrance and Isis some attending U.C. Berkeley and connected the cheerleading squad together.