Emma Roberts Loves Britney Spears Biopic Casting Suggestion: ‘My True Dream’

It would not be an understatement to say that Emma Roberts has been preparing to play Britney Spears for more than half her life. In a Cosmopolitan magazine interview, the 33-year-old Space Cadet star discussed recent headlines where Spears’ longtime assistant, Felicia Culotta, recommended Roberts as the ideal actress to portray the pop superstar in the biopic adaptation of Spears’ best-selling memoir, The Woman In Me .

“I was like, I love her assistant. I mean, it’s my true dream to play Britney Spears,” said Roberts, referring to Culotta’s interview with TMZ, in which the assistant mentioned Emma’s child star roles on Nickelodeon’s Unfabulous as a good parallel to Britney’s younger years on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club . “It’s a rumor, but I hope maybe it’ll come true. I remember locking myself in my room and listening to [2003’s] In the Zone and saying, ‘I cannot leave this room until I memorize every word.’”

Spears’ tell-all debuted at the top of the New York Times best-seller list last year. Following a bidding war, Universal secured the rights to adapt it into a film. Wicked director Jon M. Chu is attached to bring it to the big screen, alongside producer Marc Platt. As of now, no casting decisions or timeframe have been announced for the film, though Culotta also suggested Timothée Chalamet as Britney’s ex, Justin Timberlake, and Drew Barrymore as the singer’s longtime assistant.

Earlier this month, Spears revealed on X that she’s been working on a “secret project” with Platt. “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,” she wrote.

“I mean, I sing Britney to my son in the bath all the time,” Roberts confessed to Cosmo regarding her four-year-old son, Rhodes, whom she shares with ex Garrett Hudland. “I’m always like, ‘God, he must think I’m so weird.’ That’s some millennial parenting.”