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Angel Reese and Suni Lee made history on Wednesday.

The WNBA star and United States gymnastics star walked the stage at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in New York, becoming the first athletes to ever participate in the event.

Reese walked down the stage while Madison Beer, the girlfriend of Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert, performed. Lee came out a few moments later.

Reese announced last week that she had been selected to participate in the event.

Reese attended the event last year and knew it was something she wanted to do at some point in her career.

“I literally could not stop smiling!” the two-time All-Star told People‘s Catherine Santino and Hedy Phillips. “It’s such a surreal and full-circle moment — just last year I was in the audience manifesting being on that runway, completely inspired and in awe of all the powerful women walking down the runway, and now I get to return as an Angel. This will be an unforgettable night that I’ll forever be grateful for.”

Reese is obviously most known for her WNBA career, but she’s emerged as a fashion icon as well, showing off her outfits in the tunnel before games.

Both Reese and Lee have made history in their respective sports, and now they’ve made history on the runway as well.

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With her feature-film debut in A House of Dynamiteset to be released on Oct. 10, Angel Reese received some advice about acting from some of her co-stars.

Speaking to Desiree Anello and Julia Moore of PEOPLE, Reese explained that Idris Elba, who plays the President of the United States in the film, gave her some words of wisdom to help calm her nerves before they started shooting.

“Stay confident. Be yourself. Have fun,” she said of Elba.

Reese went on to say she spent time “shooting baskets” with the Emmy-nominated actor.

The two-time WNBA All-Star also said rapper/actor Common has pushed her to get an acting coach after she suggested doing more onscreen roles in the future:

“I want to get an acting coach. I was talking to Common—he’s overseas right now shooting season 2 of Silo—and he was telling me, ‘You got to hire an acting coach.’ So I’m going to hire an acting coach. I model already, so it’s like adding to the résumé. I’m young right now, so I’m going to do it while I’m young.”

IMDB lists Reese’s role in A House of Dynamiteas “WNBA star.”

Per Chris Gardner of The Hollywood Reporter, Reese appears in a cameo during the final chapter of the film that is divided into three parts:

“There’s a little bit of a lead-up to her cameo as Elba’s character, the President of the United States, is briefed in the White House that the next item on his agenda is an ‘Angel Reese‘ thing. The action picks up as the president visits Liberty Arena where Reese is waiting on the basketball floor with a group of girls. Elba’s character then shoots some hoops and shares how sports have changed his life. Reese engaged with Elba and the young women until the president was abruptly pulled away to deal with a developing catastrophe.”

The premise of the film involves government officials trying to determine the source of a nuclear missile launch that is targeting the United States. Kathryn Bigelow, who won Oscars for directing and producing The Hurt Locker, directed the film.

A House of Dynamitehad its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. It will be released on Netflix on Oct. 10.

The film marks Reese’s acting debut. She previously appeared on the 2024 Amazon docuseries The Money Game: LSU about the impact of NIL on college athletics.

Reese recently wrapped up her second season in the WNBA. She averaged a career-high 14.7 points per game, along with 12.6 rebounds per contest in 30 starts for the Chicago Sky.

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Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese and Dallas Wings guard Paige Bueckers were among the star players to support Minnesota Lynx forward Napheesa Collier’s comments regarding WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert.

Collier called out Engelbert during her exit interview on Tuesday, telling reporters that the WNBA has the “worst leadership in the world.”

Reese appeared to acknowledge Collier’s statement in a post on X, while Bueckers posted a picture of herself along with the Lynx star on her Instagram story (h/t ESPN’s Alexa Philippou).

As part of Collier’s remarks, she disclosed a conversation that she had with Engelbert regarding the WNBA’s young stars including Bueckers and Reese.

“I also asked how she planned to fix the fact that players like [Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers], who are clearly driving massive revenue for the league and are making so little for their first four years,” Collier said, via ESPN’s Myron Medcalf. “Her response was, ‘[Clark] should be grateful. She makes $16 million off the court because without the platform that the WNBA gives her, she wouldn’t make anything.'”

“And in that same conversation, she told me, ‘Players should be on their knees, thanking their lucky stars for the media rights deal that I got them,'” she added.

Seattle Storm star Nneka Ogwumike and Los Angeles Sparks forward Dearica Hamby also supported Collier in separate posts on X (h/t Philippou).

Meanwhile, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham wasn’t pleased with Engelbert’s purported comments about Fever teammate Caitlin Clark.

The WNBA and WNBPA are currently in discussions surrounding a new collective bargaining agreement, which will shape the future of the league moving forward.

Bueckers and Reese, two of the WNBA’s rising stars, have now backed Collier.

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