A director who as soon as labored with Britney Spears is pushing again towards the general public misconceptions in regards to the star’s character.
Talking on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy on Friday (April 7), Fenton Bailey opened up about what he discovered in regards to the celebrity whereas helming Spears’ 2013 documentary I Am Britney Jean. “She’s actually not this sort of … We expect that, , due to ‘Oops!…I Did It Once more’ or ‘[I’m a] Slave 4 U,’ we expect she’s simply, like, this charged up intercourse strumpet,” he instructed host Andy Cohen. “That’s not who she is.
“On the stage she is,” Bailey continued, “however in actual life, she’s shy, very introverted. And as she has stored on saying, ‘I’m only a regular, boring particular person.’”
The World of Marvel co-founder, who’s at the moment selling his new guide ScreenAge: How TV Formed Our Actuality, From Tammy Faye to RuPaul’s Drag Race, additionally made some extent to mirror on the authorized conservatorship Spears was below on the time they labored collectively. “I didn’t assume whereas we had been making that documentary that she was being constrained towards her will, I didn’t get that,” he mentioned. “I obtained the impression that Larry Rudolph, her supervisor, and Adam Leber and her dad had been additionally on her facet, and that working was actually good for her.”
Since being free of her conservatorship in late 2021, Spears has gotten married to longtime love Sam Asghari and scored her highest charting single in additional than a decade due to Billboard Sizzling 100 high 10 hit “Maintain Me Nearer,” her comeback collab with Elton John.
Watch Bailey mirror on working with Spears under.
