After a serious casting endorsement, Emma Roberts is campaigning for the function of a lifetime.
After Britney Spears‘ assistant urged the actress play her in a characteristic adaptation of Spears’ memoir The Lady In Me, Roberts appears greater than ready to tackle the portrayal, explaining that she’s been making ready for at the least 20 years.
“I used to be like, I really 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 keep in mind I locked myself in my room and listened to Within the Zone and mentioned, ‘I can’t go away 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 assume I’m so bizarre.’ That’s some millennial parenting.”
Spears’ longtime assistant Felicia Culotta beforehand urged Roberts tackle the function as she instructed TMZ the actress’ little one stardom on Nickelodeon‘s Unfabulous parallels Spears’ personal adolescence on the Disney Channel‘s The All-New Mickey Mouse Membership.
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Culotta additionally urged 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 Instances’ best-sellers record, a studio bidding battle ensued. Common lately received the rights to the venture, with Depraved director Jon M. Chu hooked up to helm the difference.
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.
