After 20 years MIA, the D.E.B.S. (Self-discipline, Power, Magnificence, Energy) are again collectively once more and teasing a possible (not-so-secret) mission.
Meagan Good and Sara Foster, who starred collectively in 2004’s D.E.B.S., reunited Saturday evening with author and director Angela Robinson to have a good time the sapphic cult basic’s twentieth anniversary with a Cinespia screening at Hollywood Eternally Cemetery, in partnership with LA Pleasure.
“This movie, for me, was a chance to do one thing completely different,” stated Good as they launched the movie. “After which it grew to become one thing the place, now when folks come as much as me they usually say, ‘Oh, I beloved this film’ or ‘this film actually impressed me’ or ‘made me really feel seen,’ it wasn’t simply a chance to do one thing completely different. It was a chance to be part of one thing that’s essential and incredible.”
Foster echoed her co-star’s sentiments. “I’ll say that in 20 years, a number of good issues have occurred to me in my life,” she stated. “And to today, probably the greatest issues is folks coming as much as me and saying, ‘D.E.B.S. made me really feel comfy being who I’m. D.E.B.S. made me notice who I’m, who I need to be.’
“And it’s occurred persistently for 20 years. So, I’ve completed a number of actually shitty films and a number of shitty TV exhibits, however it is a film that made a distinction, most likely the one factor I ever did that made a distinction, no less than within the film enterprise,” added Foster.
D.E.B.S. (2004)stars Meagan Good and Sara Foster reunite with author/director Angela Robinson for the twentieth anniversary Cinespia screening on June 23, 2024 at Hollywood Eternally Cemetery. (Photograph by Glenn Garner)
Foster starred within the motion comedy — based mostly on Robinson’s 2003 in need of the identical title — as Amy Bradshaw, a gifted recruit at a top-secret ladies’s paramilitary academy. Throughout a mission to take down the illusive tremendous felony Lucy Diamond (Jordana Brewster), Amy develops an attraction to the enemy and finds her loyalties examined.
Though the film’s advertising watered down its LGBTQ themes and it in the end grossed lower than $100,000 on the field workplace, D.E.B.S. has gone on to cult standing amongst its supposed fanbase.
“We made this so way back, and my aim, our aim collectively was, I simply needed to see a teen film that I want I had after I was a youngster,” recalled Robinson. “And we had such a blast making the film, and we had an ideal premiere at Sundance. After which the film got here out and completely flopped.
Director Angela Robinson, stars Meagan Good, Jill Ritchie and Devon Aoki on the set of D.E.B.S. (2004). (Samuel Goldwyn Movies/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
“However right here’s the factor, I used to be so bummed out as a result of I used to be like, ‘It’s not gonna get to the viewers that I needed to see this film.’ And then you definately guys went and located it. Then any person would inform me ‘yeah, I rented it within the video retailer.’ And I used to be all mad on the time … that they weren’t promoting it as a homosexual film. However then it grew to become this sort of underground factor the place folks would inform me they rented it on the video retailer or handed it or watched it on TV or one thing like that. After which it’s grown into this in the present day. So, I need to say thanks a lot.”
Robinson additionally thanked her spouse of 25 years, Alexandra Kondracke, “who instructed me to not take the script and stick it within the drawer like I used to be going to,” as effectively Sony Display Gems’ Clint Culpepper and Stacy Kramer, “as a result of I can’t imagine anybody gave us cash to make this, however you probably did, and it’s wonderful.”
Jordana Brewster attends the D.E.B.S. New York Metropolis premiere on March 21, 2005. (Photograph by Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage)
“However principally, I need to thank all of you for coming and being right here and supporting D.E.B.S. as a result of a bunch of individuals have come as much as us collectively, they usually stated, ‘D.E.B.S. modified our lives,’” added Robinson. “And that’s extremely gratifying to see all these years later.”
Though Brewster was in New Zealand and unable to attend the reunion, she graced her mates and followers with a video message, through which she imagined an “older, wiser Lucy Diamond. Has she realized her lesson? I don’t know… In all probability not.”
“Have enjoyable. I really like you guys. I’m with you in spirit,” added Brewster. “And bug Angela about making a sequel, please.”
