It Girl Next Door
Gabrielle Union
AGE: 28 WHY HER? Because she regularly takes girl-next-door for a sexy spin (see
Friends, ER, The Brothers). And because, at 28, she can still rock a set of pom-poms (see Bring It On)
ONE THING YOU'LL DEFINITELY HATE ABOUT HER What started as a modeling gig to pay
off UCLA student loans ended up as an acting career. "The first thing I
auditioned for [Moesha] I got. I never stopped working after that."
ON BEING IT "I see 'it' for exactly what it is. You could be the It Girl right now and two weeks from
now you could be the Out Girl."
FANTASY ROLE Rizzo in Grease. "There's been talk about [a remake] with Britney Spears.
If I got to be Rizzo, I wouldn't care if it was Mandy Moore and the Backstreet Boys...To this day,
when I see Stockard Channing I lose my mind."
NEXT Union (who recently married Chris Howard) tackles grown-up roles in back-to-back films: Two Can
Play that Game with Vivica A. Fox, Welcome to Collinwood with George Clooney, and Abandon
with Benjamin Bratt and Katie Holmes.
©Entertainment Weekly Magazine: Summer Double Issue '01