"Bring It On" celebrated its 20th full year yesterday. Lest we fall into a spiral of adolescent transience and the unstoppable flow of time, let's get right into the fascinating Zoom conversation that stars Gabrielle Union and Kirsten Dunst, screenwriter Jessica Bendinger, and director Peyton Reed had with the film to mark the occasion. This conversation was conducted by stars Gabrielle Union and Kirsten Dunst, screenwriter Jessica Bendinger, and director Peyton Reed to celebrate the release of Zoom.

"Twenty years later, the impact that the film had and continues to have, it's amazing," Union said, according to "Entertainment Tonight" (opens in new tab).

"I mean, Kirsten, maybe we're like the co-presidents of the PTA. I don't know."

"Or maybe we could run a cheer school, like Cheer," Dunst suggested.

"Who knows?"

Union also discussed her perception of her character, Captain Isis of the Clovers, compared to Dunst's Captain Torrance of the Toros, and the film's enduring theme of white appropriation of black culture. She said that the film is "received very differently by communities of color than it is by white people."

Union added that in a recent Bring It On iteration of the "movie villain/actual villain" (open in new tab) meme she saw, Isis was portrayed as a movie villain. Says Union, "I never thought of her as a villain because she wants equality, accountability, and a level playing field, and she wants her team's contributions to be recognized."

"It never occurred to me that someone would be demonized for that," she continued, noting that cultural appropriation is real and prevalent.

"I don't know why," she said, "but that's real life.