The director of Bring It On, Peyton Reed, has spoken about the film’s tackling of cultural appropriation, and how it was received, on its 20th anniversary.
He added that, in the film, Torrance comes to realise “how complicit she is in this weird institutionalised racism that’s going on”.
“I think there are always gonna be people in the audience, as there are in our country, who aren’t comfortable that the white girls didn’t win,” Reed told Variety.
In the movie, Torrance’s team (the Toros) and Isis’s team (the Clovers) compete for the national title, with the Clovers coming out on top.