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“I mean, she is an absolute icon,” Brown said of Spears, 43. “I would love nothing more than to be a part of her story.”
“But,” adds theStranger Thingsactress, “that’s her story, and I am in full support of her bringing her story to life how she wants to.”
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Brown expressed interest in playing the pop star on the silver screen during an appearance onThe Drew Barrymore Showin November 2022.
“I want to play a real person and I think for me, Britney. [It] would be Britney Spears. I think her story, first of all, resonates with me,” she told hostDrew Barrymore.
“Just growing up in the public eye watching her videos, watching interviews of how when she was younger. I mean, same thing with you,” Brown continued. “I see the scramble for words [in her interviews] and I don’t know her, but when I look at pictures of her, I feel likeI could tell her story in the right wayand hers only.”
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Spearswrote on Xat the time, “Excited to share with my fans that I’ve been working on a secret project with#MarcPlatt. He’s always made my favorite movies … stay tuned.”
Speaking withThe Hollywood Reporterin November 2024, Chu, 45, said that Spears “represents a generation of people growing up in the 2000s and late ’90s.”
“She has astory that deserves to be told properly,” the filmmaker added. “There’s a lot about us in it.”
The Electric Stateis streaming March 14 on Netflix.
source: people.com
