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Britney Spears' former assistant suggested Emma Roberts to play the pop star, and Roberts is mighty keen on the idea Perhaps Britney Spears should be conducting a Britney Bootcamp à la Madonna. Earlier this month, Universal announced an adaptation of Spears' memoir The Woman In Me, to be directed by John M. Chu (Wicked, In The Heights).
No doubt the news sent a lot of Hollywood stars running straight to their agents. Not only is it a juicy role (Spears' memoir charts her rise to superstardom, the glare of fame, and her imprisonment in a conservatorship by her family), but a certain cohort of people who grew up with her music will always be huge fans—like Emma Roberts. After the biopic was announced, Spears' longtime assistant and family friend Felicia Culotta (who expressed her support for Spears in the New York Times doc Framing.
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