Author: Emma Loggins
Date: 2007-12-10

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In Bring It On: In It To Win It, Southern California high-school senior Carson (Ashley Benson) arrives at the all-important "Cheer Camp Nationals" determined to lead her squad, the West High Sharks, to victory. But chic New Yorker Brooke (Cassie Scerbo) and her team, the East High Jets, are equally steadfast in their pursuit of the competition's coveted "Spirit Stick." As tension mounts between the two rival squads, Carson falls for fellow cheerleader Penn (Michael Copon), not realizing he's a Jet. When Brooke discovers the budding romance, she raises the stakes by challenging Carson to a one-on-one cheer-off. A spectacular "cheer fighting" sequence erupts into a no-holds-barred brawl and cheerleaders on both sides are suspended from the competition. With their dreams of taking home the top prize all but shattered, the leaders of both squads realize they'll have to take drastic measures to stay in the game.

We had the honor of sitting down with Cassie, who plays Brooke in the film, to talk about her role, the training that went into it, and about the young starlet's future.

How would you compare this film to the previous ‘Bring It On’ films?

Well the similarities are obviously that you know that there is the two squads as in all The Bring It On. There is the captain who has a little more attitude, which I happen to play, and is a little bit more rude especially in this one I play a very mean character at least in the beginning. And there’s always the sweeter captain, the more wholesome, usually a less, um, what can I say, usually less urban type of captain. And this was the same with that. The difference is that this actually takes place in cheer camps which as most of the others take place in the school and then they all come together and they compete for the national and for their school. Where this one is all done at a cheer camp and we filmed at the Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando and also in Universal which is really awesome cause we had a great location.

So that would be the difference, is that this one is more of a cheer camp not so much schools competing. And what’s really cool about this one, unlike like any other, this one has like a Westside story feel where there it is the East Coast Jazz and the West Coast Sharks, and I’m the captain of the East Coast and then there’s Corbin who is the captain of the West Coast. And we, we have this, this really cool cheer rumble in the middle which is kinda like choreographed cheer fighting. It’s really interesting, it’s really different.