Britney Spears Biopic: Emma Roberts Embraces Her Inner Pop Diva
The Road to Playing Britney
Thirty-three-year-old actress Emma Roberts has been preparing to play Britney Spears on the big screen for most of her life. In a recent interview with Cosmopolitan magazine, Roberts revealed that she’s been training to portray the pop sensation for over half her life. As the ideal actress to play Spears, Universal Pictures has acquired the rights to her memoir, The Woman In Me. This biopic adaptation follows Spears’ life story, with her loyal assistant, Felicia Culotta, providing insights into the singer’s journey.
"We have been training to play these characters for more than half a life, and we are not limited by the constraints of the real. When I was a teenager I did not have the courage that I have now, and so all my life I have been on this journey of self-discovery. You cannot imagine how hard the first few years of life could be." – Emma Roberts
Cosmopolitan magazine recently inquired about recent headlines declaring Spears’ assistant, Felicia Culotta, as the one recommending Emma Roberts to play the role in her biopic. Roberts revealed an uncanny connection to Brit’s older years, citing her own experience on Nickolodeon shows such as ‘Unfabulous’ as a parallel, drawing parallels between her and Spear’s earlier years on ‘The Mickey Mouse Club’.
"I remember this and I remember saying those lines, and I remember doing like these little dance moves. Sometimes it’s like, "She said, "I want"…" – Emma Roberts
A "Secret Project" in the Works with Marc Platt
The memoir tell-all, which debuted at number one on the New York Times best-selling list, has sparked interest. Spears’ assistant, who suggested Roberts for the role, thinks Emma would be perfect to interpret her in the biopic as it is a story that the "artist" has been planning it out for years. The book may help to give a glimpse of what made her the person she’s become today.
The film will still require casting and a production, release timeline, but the director and writers of this film are already considering an additional cast of characters that come in the story. As Emma is one of the most prominent options to play the role, fans feel they have a sense, for now, of who he thinks would be the right performer.
Emma Roberts in a Family Setting
Emma also described a moment when she revealed having an emotional connection to the late Amy Winehouse, who, a star that she admired from what the world saw from then until now. When, one day, she took and said, "I remember locking myself in my room and listened." The song was "In the" the "Zone". Speaking in the interview, she told readers.
"I mean, sometimes when I’m like so happy, I’m always and say, "I love." What are you doing there this afternoon? I’m with two more people. I do say my name. – They tell me that, by then, I am like… What are you talking this…
