It might not be an understatement to say that Emma Roberts has been coaching to play Britney Spears for greater than half her life. In an interview with Cosmopolitan journal, 33-year-old House Cadet star was requested about current headlines wherein Spears’ longtime assistant, Felicia Culotta, pitched Roberts as the right actress to painting the pop celebrity within the biopic adaptation of Brit’s best-selling The Lady In Me memoir.
“I used to be like, I like her assistant. I imply, it’s my true dream to play Britney Spears,” mentioned Roberts of Culotta’s TMZ interview, wherein she recommended that Emma’s youngster star roles on Nickelodeon reveals resembling Unfabulous had been a superb parallel to Brit’s youthful years on The All-New Mickey Mouse Membership. “It’s a rumor, however I hope perhaps it’ll come true. I imply, I keep in mind I locked myself in my room and listened to [2003’s] Within the Zone and mentioned, ‘I can not depart this room till I memorize each phrase.’”
Spears’ tell-all debuted on the prime of the New York Instances best-seller checklist 12 months 12 months and following a bidding struggle Common received the rights to adapt it into a movie, with Depraved director Jon M. Chu connected to deliver it to the massive display together with producer Marc Platt. At press time no casting or timeframe has been introduced for the movie, although Culotta had a number of different casting strategies, together with Timothée Chalamet as Spears’ ex, Justin Timberlake, and Drew Barrymore taking part in the singer’s longtime assistant.
On X earlier this moth Spears revealed that she’s been engaged on a “secret challenge” with Platt. “Excited to share with my followers that I’ve been engaged on a secret challenge with #MarcPlatt. He’s all the time made my favourite films … keep tuned,” she wrote.
“I imply, I sing Britney to my son within the tub on a regular basis,” Roberts advised Cosmo of her four-year-old son, Rhodes, with ex Garrett Hudland. “I’m all the time like, ‘God, he should assume I’m so bizarre.’ That’s some millennial parenting.”
