2023-10-30 08:17:11
News culture “I’m glad I didn’t do it” singer Britney Spears has absolutely no regrets about losing her role in this cult film
Published on 10/30/2023 at 09:17
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Revealed at the very end of the 1990s with the album …Baby One More Time, Britney Spears has had a rich career, however marked by numerous difficulties and a guardianship lifted in 2021. However, the artist does not is not only known for her music since she has a career in television, perfumery, and… Cinema.
Never forget, from novel to cinema
We are not going to summarize here the career of Britney Spears, who earned him more than 450 awards. Let us still mention some cult pieces like Baby One More Time, Oops!… I Did It Again, Toxicor Womanizerto which we can add Hold Me Closera resumption of Tiny Dancer sung with Elton John in 2022 and which marks the artist’s return to the forefront. After being released from a guardianship considered abusive, the artist remarried, released her memoirs a few days ago and seems ready to prepare new productions.
But the matter that interests us today takes place in the early 2000s, when Britney Spears was everywhere. Before that, let’s go back to 1996, when Nicholas Sparks published The Pages of Our Love. The novel is a hit all over the world. The story begins in a retirement home, where a man reads to a resident the love story of Noah Calhoun and Allie Hamilton, which takes place in the 1930s. Unfortunately, the two lovebirds come from very different backgrounds and end up separating after one summer. Everyone has made their own life, but they end up meeting again after the Second World War.
The cardboard is such that the adaptation rights were quickly acquired by New Line Cinema. A film, called The Notebook (Never Forget), then entered production and was released in 2004. Critical reception was mixed, but the feature film directed by Nick Cassavetes still manages to generate $115.6 million at the worldwide box office, and to glean several awards: BMI Film Music Awards, MTV Movie Award, Golden Satellite Award and 8 trophies at the Teen Choice Awards. In the casting we find in particular Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdamsJames Garner, Gena Rowlands, Joan Allen or even James Marsden and Heather Wahlquist.
A lost role giving way to global success
But then, what is the connection with Britney Spears? Well know that the singer was in the running to play one of the main roles, that of Allie, finally entrusted to Rachel McAdams. Two years after Crossroads, which was destroyed by critics and which earned Britney Spears the Razzie Awards for worst actress despite great box office success, Britney Spears could have relaunched her acting career. However, the latter has absolutely no regrets because instead, she went into the studio to record the album In the Zonewhich reached number 1 in the charts and which contains the song Toxic.
The casting of Notebook came down to me and Rachel McAdams, and while it would have been fun to reconnect with Ryan Gosling after our time on The Mickey Mouse Club, I’m glad we didn’t. If I had done that, instead of working on my album In the Zone, I would have acted day and night like a 1940s heiress (the social origin of the character Allie, editor’s note).
Subsequently, Britney Spears appeared in cameo in Pauly Shore died then in Corporates Animals. It is on television that we find her, with appearances in Will & Grace, How I Met Your Mother, Glee or Jane the Virgin. Her main activity therefore remains music and dance on stage, and, although she has not released a new album since 2016, she has still sold more than 200 million records around the world.
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