Briana badly injuried her leg sometime during the filming of Step Up 2: The Streets. In the final dance scene of the movie, dubbed the "rain dance", she is actually wearing a leg brace under her baggy pants, making the moves even harder to pull off.
Briana: (on the advice she would give to an aspiring actress) I would say just never give up, because if you're in this business, you gotta expect to get rejected most days of the week. And if it's what you love to do, just keep going, and somebody will think you're right for whatever it is you're going up for and just put all your heart into whatever you're doing and whatever it is that you love and the best will come out of it.
Briana: (on her first dance teacher Shane Sparks) Shane was my first dance teacher, and he really gave me my style. He helped me break out of my box and become a bigger dancer with myself. He always had a great energy, and I loved taking his classes because he was fun and would help me as an individual if I needed help rather than somebody who would just kind of push me along to the back and say figure it out.
Briana: (on 'Step Up 2: The Streets' co-star Robert Hoffman) We had great chemistry. I had to do a chemistry test with him, in my last audition, and we instantly clicked. We had to come up with a little salsa piece together for the audition. We absolutely clicked. He's a very nice guy and very talented and very cool.