She’s So Lucky! Emma Roberts Manifest ‘Dream’ to Portray Britney Spears in Biopic
Emma Roberts hopes she will be cast as Britney Spears in the upcoming biopic about the pop star.
The American Horror Story star is rumored to be in the running to play the 42-year-old pop icon in the upcoming Universal film about Spears.
Roberts has emphasized that it would be a dream come true if she landed the role as the Toxic hitmaker.
"I mean, it’s my true dream to play Britney Spears. It’s a rumor, but I hope maybe it’ll come true. I mean, I remember I locked myself in my room and listened to ‘In the Zone’ and said, ‘I cannot leave this room until I memorize every word,’" she told Cosmo.
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The Madame Web star then gushed about the "...Baby One More Time" chart-topper, revealing that she constantly sings Spears’ biggest tracks to her three-year-old son Rhodes, who she shares with ex Garrett Hedlund.
"I mean, I sing Britney to my son in the bath all the time. I’m always like, ‘God, he must think I’m so weird.’ That’s some millennial parenting," the 33-year-old declared.
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Roberts has been linked to the movie, which will adapt the singer’s memoir The Woman in Me, and is being directed by Wicked filmmaker Jon M. Chu, after Spears' former assistant Felicia Culotta, who worked with the singer from 1997 to 2007, told TMZ that the actress would be a good fit for the part.
Culotta also suggested that Drew Barrymore would be a good pick to play her in the movie, and pointed to Timothee Chalamet as an ideal candidate to take on the role of Justin Timberlake - who had dated the singer from 1999 to 2002.
While plot details about the picture are being kept under wraps, Spears is thought to have creative control over the script and casting.
Britney Spears in the '90s and Early 2000s
Gallery Credit: Ryan Reichard