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Article:
Cheetah Girls film tests actress' steps
Monday, Dec. 15, 2008
By Rick Bentley / The Fresno Bee
LOS ANGELES -- "The Cheetah Girls: One World," a Disney Channel original movie set to be released on DVD Tuesday, features loads of dancing. That's no revelation. All of the Cheetah Girls movies have featured plenty of dance moves.
In this case, the film's perky stars -- Adrienne Bailon, Sabrina Bryan and Kiely Williams -- get their dancing put to the test when they go to India to appear in a Bollywood movie.
Bryan, who has played Dorinda in all three of the "Cheetah" tales, made the cable movie after her turn on the fifth season of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."
She was eliminated in the sixth week of the network dance competition. But the experience helped her when it came time to learn the dance moves for the movie.
"I felt a little bit stronger ..." she said. With this movie we were adding in a whole new style of dance. I felt a little bit more comfortable adding that. So I felt a little bit more comfortable going out of the box and stretching my limits," Bryan says during an interview at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Early acting jobs for the 24-year-old Yorba Linda native weren't so dance- oriented. She appeared on the daytime drama "The Bold and the Beautiful" plus made guest appearances on "Grounded for Life" and "The Geena Davis Show."
Bryan has shown her skills beyond a dance floor as the co-writer of the book "Princess of Gossip." The work of fiction was released in October.
"It's just basically about a young girl who kind of gets pulled from the Midwest out to the West Coast. And she comes to L.A., and she thinks as soon as you get into L.A. you start seeing all the famous people," Bryan says. "And she basically ends up reverting to the Internet because she's not finding any friends in school.
"Then she makes a gossip site which isn't supposed to be a gossip site."
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