After a major casting endorsement, Emma Roberts is campaigning for the role of a lifetime.
After Britney Spears‘ assistant suggested the actress play her in a feature adaptation of Spears’ memoir The Woman In Me, Roberts seems more than prepared to take on the portrayal, explaining that she’s been preparing for at least 20 years.
“I was like, I love her assistant,” she told Cosmo of her reaction to the recommendation. “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.’”
Roberts added of her love for Spears, “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.”
Spears’ longtime assistant Felicia Culotta previously suggested Roberts take on the role as she told TMZ the actress’ child stardom on Nickelodeon‘s Unfabulous parallels Spears’ own adolescence on the Disney Channel‘s The All-New Mickey Mouse Club.
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Culotta also suggested Timothée Chalamet play Spears’ ex Justin Timberlake, and Drew Barrymore as the personal assistant herself, who has been working with Spears since 1997.
After Spears’ memoir debuted last year atop the New York Times’ best-sellers list, a studio bidding war ensued. Universal recently won the rights to the project, with Wicked director Jon M. Chu attached to helm the adaptation.
The book traces Spears’ upbringing in Mississippi and Louisiana to her rise to fame with the 1999 debut album …Baby One More Time, her 2008 conservatorship and her newfound freedom.