After a significant casting endorsement, Emma Roberts is campaigning for the function of a lifetime.
After Britney Spears‘ assistant prompt the actress play her in a function adaptation of Spears’ memoir The Woman In Me, Roberts appears greater than ready to tackle the portrayal, explaining that she’s been getting ready for at the very least 20 years.
“I used to be like, I like her assistant,” she instructed Cosmo of her response to the advice. “I imply, it’s my true dream to play Britney Spears. It’s a rumor, however I hope possibly it’ll come true. I imply, I bear in mind I locked myself in my room and listened to Within the Zone and mentioned, ‘I can’t depart this room till I memorize each phrase.’”
Roberts added of her love for Spears, “I imply, I sing Britney to my son within the tub on a regular basis. I’m all the time like, ‘God, he should suppose I’m so bizarre.’ That’s some millennial parenting.”
Spears’ longtime assistant Felicia Culotta beforehand prompt Roberts tackle the function as she instructed TMZ the actress’ baby stardom on Nickelodeon‘s Unfabulous parallels Spears’ personal adolescence on the Disney Channel‘s The All-New Mickey Mouse Club.
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Culotta additionally prompt Timothée Chalamet play Spears’ ex Justin Timberlake, and Drew Barrymore as the non-public assistant herself, who has been working with Spears since 1997.
After Spears’ memoir debuted final yr atop the New York Times’ best-sellers list, a studio bidding war ensued. Universal lately won the rights to the mission, with Wicked director Jon M. Chu hooked up to helm the variation.
The ebook traces Spears’ upbringing in Mississippi and Louisiana to her rise to fame with the 1999 debut album …Child One Extra Time, her 2008 conservatorship and her newfound freedom.
