it. it was more about the inner personal side of it and about the race relation. and then seeing what happened with the step-off with the girls from arkansas, that motivated me to say, hey, wait a minute. this is a great backdrop for what this project is trying to say. reporter: the movie focuses on two step teams. one black, and one mostly white. the script, could have been taken from pages of the life of actress angela phillips who plays the white lead. i actually went to a high school with my best friend who happened to be black. i went to that school knowing that there wasn t going to be as many white people as we had went to school with in the past. and when i got there things quickly changed. and we weren t best friends anymore and there was a huge gap between us which society was the fault of society due to how races there are so many people going through that in our society today. whether it be black, white, asian, latino it s something
producer decides he wanteded to make all this into a movie. had trouble with it. i cast some actresses, white actresses. they actually chose not to do the project because in some scenes this he would have to kiss a black actor.
internet it became viral. a week later a scoring error led to the declaration of a tie between the white zetas and a black sorority from indiana university. movie producer alonzo anderson was following it all. i think the thing is that the fact that the novelty of all-white sorority stepping may have impressed the judges somewhat, but still they were good. it attracted away from what they accomplished and made it about race when it s about competition. anderson was preparing to shoot the movie stepsisters in atlanta about two best friends, a white one and black one who grew up together and they went to the same college, a black one. race threatened to destroy their hildhood bond. when i wrote this project, the stepping element wasn t a
her co-star jennifer sears agrees. i had never expected to see the type of uproar we receiveded just by having a black president, well, malato president. i thought by 2010 we would be so much further along. we are growing. race hampered finding actors for the film. i cast some actresses. some white actresses. they chose not to do the project because in some scenes this he would have to kiss a black actor. here it is 2010, we are working on a film that s socially relevant where people can learn from it and i still have actors who refuse to work with other actors because of race. no such problem for this cast. in fact, they are hoping stepsisters where art imitates life become as tool for teaching. i think it will get people
when their victory hit the internet, it went viral and became black radio talk show fodder. a week later, a scoring error led to the declaration of a tie between the white zetas and a black sorority from indiana university. movie producer alonzo anderson was following it all. the fact that the novelty of an all-white sorority stepping may influence the judges somewhat. but still, they were good. black, white, it doesn t matter, they were good. and that s really ticked me off. it kind of tracked it away from what they accomplished and made it about race when it s about competition. anderson was preparing to shoot the movie stepsisters in atlanta, a coming of age movie about two best friends, a white one and black one who grew up together and went to the same college, a black one, that s when race threatened to destroy their childhood bond. when i originally wrote this project, the stepping element wasn t that huge of a part of