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Season 3 of Netflix\u2019s docuseries America\u2019s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders comments openly on the consequences of its own actions: While the cheerleaders were minor celebrities before, the popularity of the series has catapulted the women to a level of fame that some of them were, admittedly, unprepared for. That includes Reece Weaver, the sunny squad member who quickly became a focal point and fan favorite in the series created by Greg Whiteley. \u201cWhen the show came out and had such a great response, it was so encouraging and super, super exciting,\u201d she tells ELLE over Zoom, two days after the third season was released. \u201cBut it also came with a lot of challenges\u2014with social media and people having a very loud opinion.\u201d Over the course of her third year on the team known as DCC, Weaver came to the conclusion that she needed to step away.<\/p>\n
A few months after making her decision, Weaver is looking forward to what comes next, even if she\u2019s still not certain what that will look like. \u201cI\u2019m not finished,\u201d she says. \u201cThe word retirement is so scary…and I still want to do so much with my life. I\u2019m just simply moving on to the next chapter, and excited to see what that entails. This is just the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ahead, she tells ELLE about her life in the spotlight for the past three years; the moment she made the decision to walk away from the team; and the Broadway shows she\u2019d love to star in someday.<\/p>\n
Congratulations on season 3 and your big announcement. How are you feeling now that the news is out?<\/p>\n
Definitely relieved. This is probably the biggest secret that I\u2019ve had to keep. It\u2019s bittersweet, but I also feel like there\u2019s a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. I don\u2019t have to live in secrecy anymore.<\/p>\n
Season 3 touches on how much your life changed after you joined the series. Can you share more about that change\u2014and how you stayed grounded?<\/p>\n
I had an incredible community around me that held me accountable. People didn\u2019t really understand [what I was experiencing], but they offered me so much grace and compassion with my new reality. Will [Allman, her husband] and I got married exactly two months before the show came out. When we got back from our honeymoon and I watched the first two episodes, I had no idea how much coverage we were going to get. It was hard to wrap my head around what our new reality was going to look like until it actually happened. There were pressures of not only carrying the responsibility of being a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader in general, but also the pressures of making sure we kept that standard high now that more eyes were on us.<\/p>\n
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Netflix<\/p>\n
Weaver in America\u2019s Sweethearts season 3.<\/p>\n
As a member of the DCC, you were already in the public spotlight, but the docuseries added global attention. Did you have any inkling of the scale of that attention when you signed on to the show?<\/p>\n
No, not at all. My rookie class was the first to experience what the Netflix world would look like, and I think that\u2019s why we\u2019re all so tight\u2014we all experienced it together. But we had not a clue as to what it would look like. From our directors and producers and film crew, everyone kept us in the loop of the integrity behind what they were documenting, but we still didn\u2019t know what to expect until it actually was here.<\/p>\n
Of course, the big reveal is that, after three seasons, you\u2019ve decided to step away from the squad. Talk me through the moment when you officially made that decision.<\/p>\n
In March, I had a confirmative answer, and I was really at peace with my decision. I wanted to give Kelly [Finglass, team director] and Judy [Trammell, head choreographer] an answer by the end of March, and I had been wrestling with this decision for a while. It wasn\u2019t until the beginning of March that I started taking the steps of solidifying it, because it was going to take me a while for it to sink in.<\/p>\n
Was there a specific moment when you made up your mind?<\/p>\n
Not necessarily. I just kept avoiding this [feeling] of wanting to jump into something new and taking a leap of faith. I wanted to do what felt comfortable, but I felt like the Lord was calling me elsewhere. I was just wrestling with it. When I started to think about stepping away, the more I saw doors opening and opportunities being presented, and I felt at peace that this was something I was supposed to do.<\/p>\n
In the series, you say that the plan is to go back home to Alabama. Where are you today?<\/p>\n
Yes, we have officially moved back to Alabama. This was a dream of ours, even before we graduated college, and it\u2019s a blessing that it\u2019s come to fruition. We have such a sweet community in Dallas, and we will always be visiting. I\u2019m sure we will be there quite a lot, but we have a great community here, and we\u2019re a lot closer to family.<\/p>\n
You mentioned some doors opening. What can you tell us about what the next chapter holds for you?<\/p>\n
Something I talked about in episode 7 was that I really wanted to take a leap of faith, and I didn\u2019t know where that was going to lead me. I\u2019m a person who likes to have everything in place and look down three months from now and know what\u2019s going on. But that\u2019s not the case for me right now, and I\u2019m embracing that. So I don\u2019t have anything that is set in progress.<\/p>\n
Actually, the injury this past year has rekindled my love for dance. I really wanted to go back to how I was raised in dance, which is in the conservatory tracks: classic, ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, and specifically theater-style dance. I really want to go back to that, and a huge dream of mine is Broadway. I\u2019m also working on a book. It\u2019s a lot of different avenues that I\u2019ve never put myself in, but I\u2019m really excited to see what that brings out.<\/p>\n
Is the book memoir or fiction?<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t share too much, but my hope is that it inspires a lot of young women. I hope that through the words on the page they can hear me, and that they can see vulnerable and authentic Reece. But it\u2019s cool because I actually wrote this down in high school, like what I see myself doing in 10 years. I wrote down DCC, Broadway, and writing a book. I\u2019m like, Where did that come from? But it\u2019s just so cool that that\u2019s coming to fruition.<\/p>\n
What is your dream Broadway show?<\/p>\n
As someone who grew up as a dancer, it\u2019s Chicago. The music is just so iconic, and I was always listening to it growing up, so I feel like that would be really cool. And then I also love Just in Time, a newer Broadway show, but the music\u2026my soul lights up when I hear that classic jazz musical theater music.<\/p>\n
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Netflix<\/p>\n
Weaver and her DCC teammate Megan McElaney.<\/p>\n
Would you ever follow in your old teammate Victoria Kalina\u2019s footsteps and try out for the Rockettes?<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always thought about it. I think if I were to audition for the Rockettes, I would take a little bit of time, because I know that the seasons are very similar to DCC\u2014that fall and Christmastime is your busy season. I want to take a little bit of time for myself to enjoy the holiday season, and then we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n
Do you think you\u2019ll return to DCC as a choreographer or judge in the future? Or would you prefer to have a clean break from this chapter?<\/p>\n
I would love to still be connected with the organization. I\u2019m just so grateful for the people I\u2019ve met, especially my teammates\u2014they\u2019re my best friends. I would love to step into the choreography side and help if they want, or maybe do some mentorship or something like that. They\u2019ll definitely be seeing me, whether they like it or not, at games. I\u2019ll be supporting the girls as much as possible.<\/p>\n
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"6 min read Spoilers below. Season 3 of Netflix\u2019s docuseries America\u2019s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders comments openly on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":879005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,2392,357206,1596,1201,311952,2875,279948,357205,357207,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-879004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-content-type-feature","tag-contentid-d0b8470b-2dce-4b2b-9edd-9203c4a99225","tag-dallas","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-7","tag-shorttitle-reece-weaver-on-leaving-the-dcc","tag-subsection-movies-tv","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116778721082402683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}