Tatyana Ali is sharing a bit of identified truth about her time filming a well-liked 90’s movie and an individual who performed a serious half in ensuring her expertise went easily.
In a latest publish to Instagram, Ali shared throwback footage from a number of scenes of the 1999 highschool crime movie, “Jawbreaker.” In the event you’ll keep in mind, the story centered round a clique of fashionable (and imply) teenage women who must cowl up their good friend’s homicide after a birthday prank goes unhealthy. Although she had a small position, the movie was considerably apropos for Ali seeing as how she was legitimately the one particular person really in highschool on the time.
Nonetheless, what wasn’t inappropriate was the alleged mistreatment she endured from one actress onset. Within the publish, the “Recent Prince of Bel-Air” star revealed that she had a “bully” whereas they have been filming however one in every of her costars ended up stepping in and stepping up for her at some point in an try to finish all of the pointless drama.
“These are from Jawbreaker (1999). I used to be the one one really in highschool once we shot this, and I handled a bit of bullying on set from one actress specifically,” Ali stated. “However at some point, she tried it in entrance of everyone… and @rosemcgowan instructed her to stfu in entrance of everyone! I’ll all the time love her for that.”
In a enjoyable twist, McGowan herself in some way acquired wind of the publish and located her strategy to Ali’s feedback part to as soon as once more supply phrases of encouragement.
“I’d do it once more. You’re that foreve[r] combo- dignity, brains and wonder,” she wrote.
As famous by TikTok person The Reel for Actual Podcast, the whole scenario is a giant ball of irony contemplating the film’s deal with “the darkish aspect of being a young person and recognition.” For Ali to have been the youngest particular person on the set and to have needed to undergo what she went by means of contemplating the premise of the movie they have been capturing, it actually ought to make whoever determined to be a imply woman in actual life ashamed. Not solely was it distasteful, however it simply proves that they fully missed the larger message within the movie.
Shoutout to Ali for preserving her head up and McGowan for being a lady’s woman all these years in the past.