Join Gabrielle Union as she unveils her most beloved movie characters (Bring It On, 10 Things I Hate About You, Bad Boys II, and Being Mary Jane) and their unforgettable styles. Witness the fashion evolution in this mesmerizing behind-the-scenes journey.
Director: Stephanie Romero
Cinematography: Amusement Productions
Video Editor: Collin Hughart
Sound Mixer: Jason Flaster
VP, Creative: Alexa Wiley
VP, Social: MacKenzie Green
Executive Director, Entertainment: Jessica Baker
Director: Stephanie Romero
Cinematography: Amusement Productions
Video Editor: Collin Hughart
Sound Mixer: Jason Flaster
VP, Creative: Alexa Wiley
VP, Social: MacKenzie Green
Executive Director, Entertainment: Jessica Baker
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00:00There's something that happened that none of us will ever speak of hey, this is Gabrielle Union
00:05And today we are gonna go behind the looks on who what where?
00:17Chastity from 10 things I hate about you
00:20Which is interesting because a lot of people at that time thought I was an actual child. I was not
00:27There's points where the parents of a couple cast members signed their children over to me
00:34wrong move
00:35My first order of business was getting them fake IDs and we were hitting the UW bars and the bars in Tacoma
00:42In Federal Way, I took them all to black clubs in Federal Way
00:45and that's what one should do when you're tasked by their parents to keep them safe and to
00:51Make sure that they're doing their summer school homework
00:55I'm sure you know, they all got left behind because why would you ever put me in charge? But uh
01:01Chastity's clothes were I guess very teenagery, but I was super grown like late 20s
01:08I think for most teen movies you have to have a clear villain
01:12You have to have people to root for
01:14Does it feel even mildly aspirational solid script you have to flip it?
01:20I mean everything has been done before so, how are you gonna, you know reinvent the wheel?
01:24I think the best, you know teen movies are more inclusive and
01:30It's you know, like whenever I was just like the black friend
01:34not like
01:36The most interesting for me personally to watch but when there's more diversity like love Simon
01:41I mean, please like I was bawling the whole movie. She's all that
01:45Another movie that launched a thousand friendships
01:48I didn't know any of these people at the time, but they have become very very very close friends
01:54I don't know what her name was, but I remember that weave that was one of my first amazing weaves
01:59They used a lot of hair like cuz can there be too much?
02:02And I became you know friends with a guy who became one of my closest guy friends ever Dulé Hill
02:11Develop really close relationship with little Kim Usher was in that Rachel Lee cook
02:16Paul Walker Freddie like that. We all were really close for a very long time and let's talk about Katie's very inappropriate
02:24wardrobe for high school
02:27Where was she going because I saw Katie go to the beach. I actually booked she's all that
02:33Two days after I got back from filming ten things I hate about you
02:36So this movie love and basketball I played
02:41What was her name Shawnee Easton and I met one of my best friends
02:45So now late then on that movie not that we were friends during the filming that came later
02:49Actually when I was shooting bad boys 2 and she was shooting at a time and we were living in the same hotel in Miami
02:55for months that
02:57Particular look well, actually all the looks in love and basketball
03:02Shawnee Easton
03:04was way more blessed than I and so they were it was right around the time like sports like
03:10The Wonder Bra was kind of being introduced and the chicken cutlets. I had two chicken cutlets her boob
03:17playing Shawnee Easton
03:20Almighty Isis from bring it on
03:23It's funny because it's the movie that we all took because we didn't get the movie that we wanted
03:29Yeah, Kirsten really wanted save the last dance and I wanted
03:33It was a cheerleading bank robbery movie and there were 12 roles and I thought well, of course
03:40One of them has to be black and they were like no no, that's where you'd be wrong
03:43None of them will be back. And so I was very heartbroken about the you know, the the surefire hit
03:48Of the bank robbing cheerleaders. And so I was like, I guess I'll take bring it on. I guess that worked out for me
03:55Connie Spaulding
03:56To can play that game
03:58She is that bitch is was and forever will be that bitch. What's funny though is
04:04That's probably when people first started realizing that
04:08Perhaps I have hip and knee and ankle issues
04:12Because we had to do that walk that
04:14iconic Connie Spaulding intro a number of times and they were like just think of like she's a bad mamma-jama
04:20Just think of like all these songs that were supposed to inspire
04:24Sexiness but really they should have been just giving me turmeric because
04:29My joint pain was extreme
04:31Oh
04:31What I know about Connie for sure is she's gonna see about somebody's Negro probably not her own and she's having the time of her
04:37Life city girls up a billion with Connie Spaulding outside. No, that's a power pony
04:42And and Connie really was very committed to that power pony. She was committed to an updo
04:48Throughout the film and I love that for her. That is bad boys, too
04:52I played Sid that dress that iconic dress. That's Gucci
04:56And it's the hottest sexiest I've ever looked or felt on screen in my entire career. It felt amazing
05:03it was six months of
05:05Being treated like the Queen of Sheba by Will and Martin and Martin literally to this day treats me like a little sister
05:12Not so much that I appear in any of the other sequels, but just enough for
05:17This
05:19But I've never been shot more
05:22Sexy beautiful in my entire career. So Michael Bay
05:29You're good with me
05:30Deliver us from Eva
05:33Eva's wardrobe. I
05:35Was a little corporate a little buttoned up, but I actually just reinvented
05:40Eva's equestrian look
05:42On Mother's Day, so Eva lives Eva Dandridge lives justice for Eva her and I don't remember what else name was in this movie
05:51Character name, but I don't think they were like a great match
05:54I feel like it was a little toxic the fact that like
05:57He was cool to like fake his death if a man fakes his death. That's probably a sign. He's not for you
06:04That is from think like a man to when we're in Vegas and it took
06:10All day long it felt like it was easily
06:131015 takes and was right before lunch and everyone was hungry and annoyed and it was take after take after take and
06:22There's something that happened
06:24Right around the time of the final take right before lunch that none of us will ever speak of
06:30So the secret to having a large ensemble
06:34Cast and it being fun is to only work with people you actually know and our friends with
06:40Who's crazy you have already seen a number of times?
06:44So we were there. We're all very very close friends. We've all known each other for a very long time. So
06:49If it was a different combination of people
06:52Probably wouldn't have all the fun stories and fun memories
06:56so Mary Jane style
06:58at work is very
07:01Corporate chic when she was with her girlfriend
07:04She was a little more sexy when she was out with any number of her suitors
07:10It was almost she she almost kind of would sort of lean heavily into whatever their style was
07:16She was like a chameleon in that way
07:19But yeah, she was she was awesome. I thoroughly enjoyed playing Mary Jane and all of her epic reads
07:27The perfect find her style in this movie very different from my own, but she goes there she leans in she's fashion-forward
07:34She takes risks. She doesn't you know, she sets trends. She doesn't follow them and this particular picture
07:40It's to him also very close friends. Lala is like fan like the friend that became family
07:47We've known each other longer than the guys have known each other. She played the
07:52The DJ and to can play that game when she was 19 and we've been friends like ever since
07:59And Ayesha and I we both kind of started our careers around the same time and we did this
08:04Really creepy psycho indie together and that's how I mean we've known each other for ever
08:10Thank you so much. It has been so much fun revisiting some of my characters and their most iconic looks
08:22You