In an interview with Digital Trends, director KarenLam and actress KerriMedders discuss blending cheerleading with horror in BringItOn: Cheer or Die.
In 2000, competitive cheerleading took center stage in the teen comedy, Bring It On. The depiction of rival high school cheerleading teams competing for a championship became a cult classic thanks to its witty script and memorable performances from Kirsten Dunst and Gabrielle Union. The film also used the well-known chant, “Brr! It’s cold in here,” which most likely found its way into your high school’s cheer squad.
Karen Lam: To be honest, I didn’t know what Bring It On was so that’s really embarrassing. I’m a horror nut. I thought that was the weirdest title for a horror film. Bring It On? Does that mean, “Bring it on, death?” I was trying to wrap my head around it. Then after reading it, I was like, “Did they get the right person?” I’m known for horror, but I’m not known for cheer. I’m a dork. I’m not coordinated, so I was like, “They have the wrong person for sure.
Karen, you kind of mentioned you’ve worked a lot with horror. How did you incorporate the teen comedy aspect from the previous Bring It On films with horror elements? In the credits, there is a behind-the-scenes look at all the training. Kerri, what was the training like for the cheerleading scenes? Competitive cheerleading is a sport. I know some people say it’s not, but those are real athletes doing it.Lam: I’m so happy the studio allowed me to keep it [the video]. We – my DP, me on the iPad, and my first AD – all had our cell phones and that end credit sequence is us filming what we were seeing. I was just so blown by what I was seeing every day at cheer camp. I wanted to make sure that you could see how hard everyone worked for that.
I wanted to make sure that we felt the same way at the end. Killing Scott was one of the first changes I made to the script because to me, boyfriends should not play anything into it. The girlfriend in this case is like “Kill the boyfriend. He’s not interesting.” No offense. Is that bad? [Medders laughs]
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