Millie Bobby Brown is in the market to add at least another "B" to her initials. It's Britney, bitch: the Stranger Things actor is eager for the chance to portray Britney Spears in a biopic at some point in her career.
UPDATE (11/8, 4:14 p.m. ET): Spears may have responded less than favourably to Brown's desire to play her. Though she doesn't refer to the actor by name, the pop star wrote in part of a new Instagram post caption, "I hear about people wanting to do movies about my life … dude I'm not dead !!! Although it's pretty fucking clear they preferred me dead."
Brown began manifesting by putting her dream out into the world in a new interview with Drew Barrymore for an in-car segment — called, you guessed it, Drewber — of The Drew Barrymore Show. Barrymore asked if there was anything she had on her bucket list as a filmmaker and producer, to which Brown responded, "I want to play a real person. And I think, for me... Britney. It would be Britney Spears."
When the host pressed her on why this would be the role of a lifetime for Brown, who most recently starred in the sequel to Netflix's Enola Holmes, she highlighted some shared experiences and sense of kindred spirit-ship with the pop star.
"I think her story, first of all, resonates with me — growing up in the public eye, watching her videos, watching interviews of her when she was young," Brown explained. "I mean, same thing with you, I see the scramble for words. And I don't know her, but when I look at pictures of her, I feel like I could tell her story in the right way — and hers only."
This summer, Spears released her first new single in six years, "Hold Me Closer" with Elton John. It's been almost a year since the singer was officially freed from her conservatorship, which she was forced to endure for 13 years — and she's already inked a $15 million book deal to write a memoir since, so it seems pretty logical that a film adaptation would follow!
Check out the full interview below.
UPDATE (11/8, 4:14 p.m. ET): Spears may have responded less than favourably to Brown's desire to play her. Though she doesn't refer to the actor by name, the pop star wrote in part of a new Instagram post caption, "I hear about people wanting to do movies about my life … dude I'm not dead !!! Although it's pretty fucking clear they preferred me dead."
Brown began manifesting by putting her dream out into the world in a new interview with Drew Barrymore for an in-car segment — called, you guessed it, Drewber — of The Drew Barrymore Show. Barrymore asked if there was anything she had on her bucket list as a filmmaker and producer, to which Brown responded, "I want to play a real person. And I think, for me... Britney. It would be Britney Spears."
When the host pressed her on why this would be the role of a lifetime for Brown, who most recently starred in the sequel to Netflix's Enola Holmes, she highlighted some shared experiences and sense of kindred spirit-ship with the pop star.
"I think her story, first of all, resonates with me — growing up in the public eye, watching her videos, watching interviews of her when she was young," Brown explained. "I mean, same thing with you, I see the scramble for words. And I don't know her, but when I look at pictures of her, I feel like I could tell her story in the right way — and hers only."
This summer, Spears released her first new single in six years, "Hold Me Closer" with Elton John. It's been almost a year since the singer was officially freed from her conservatorship, which she was forced to endure for 13 years — and she's already inked a $15 million book deal to write a memoir since, so it seems pretty logical that a film adaptation would follow!
Check out the full interview below.
