{"id":292979,"date":"2020-05-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1156294"},"modified":"2020-05-28T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T13:00:00","slug":"heres-something-to-cheer-for-see-the-cast-of-bring-it-on-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/heres-something-to-cheer-for-see-the-cast-of-bring-it-on-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s Something to Cheer For: See the Cast of Bring It On Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Five years after her movie debut in Clueless <\/em>as Summer, Bilderback played bitchy but ultimately harmless Whitney, who eventually proves to be a team player.<\/p>\n

Bring It On <\/em>was her biggest movie but she has steadily worked in film and TV, including a recurring role as Heather on Dawson’s Creek<\/em>, followed by House<\/em>, Heroes<\/em>, Cold Case<\/em>, Numb3rs<\/em>, Castle<\/em>, The Mentalist<\/em>, Bones<\/em>, NCIS: New Orleans <\/em>and Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/em>. An expert in martial arts as well as a trained dancer, Bilderback has done all of her own stunts through the years.<\/p>\n

Jenny Han, author of the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before<\/em> books, wrote in a 2018 New York Times<\/em> essay<\/a> that she feels that, if Bilderback were coming up now, she’d be the lead in more projects. “She’d be the star of a teen movie, because I would make it my mission to write one for her,” Han wrote. <\/p>\n

Bilderback, who is Korean-American, told Huffington Post<\/a> in 2018, “The majority of the roles that I’ve portrayed have been roles that were either intended for Caucasian actresses or the ethnicity wasn’t specified. So for me, I got lucky in the sense of I wasn’t really typecast as just an Asian actress. And I think a lot of that had to do with the timing. I was one of the first. It was like me, Lucy Liu<\/strong>, Lindsay Price<\/strong> and one or two other actresses who are still working today.”<\/p>\n

Asked what it was like continuing to audition at that point in her career, Bilderback (who read for Crazy Rich Asians<\/em> but didn’t get it) replied, “I’ve always been very fortunate. I’ve always worked. But it’s, for me personally, getting to the next level that I thought I would have already been at by now.<\/p>\n

“Because I’ve always been a contender. I was always getting down to the wire, and politics have been a speed bump. Here I would be a contender for a lead role in something, whether it be a TV show or a great role in a big movie, and there would already be an offer out to a star name, or they went with a different ethnicity. And then it’s funny, because this year has been a really beautiful, big breakthrough year for me because I returned to writing. I wrote a half-hour, single-camera sitcom pilot, kind of loosely about my life, really. I’m also producing now. I’m producing my first feature film. I had to realize, ‘Oh, wait a minute, there’s than one way of becoming a successful actress and reaching the success that I’ve always known I was meant to reach, other than just through auditioning.”<\/p>\n

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Five years after her movie debut in Clueless as Summer, Bilderback played bitchy but ultimately harmless Whitney, who eventually proves to be a team player. Bring It On was her biggest movie but she has steadily worked in film and TV, including a recurring role as Heather on Dawson’s Creek, followed by House, Heroes, Cold Case, Numb3rs, Castle, The Mentalist, Bones, NCIS: New Orleans and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. An expert in martial arts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-19 00:38:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}