Britney Spears, 41, was almost forged as Allie Hamilton in Nicholas Sparks‘ The Pocket book in 2004, a brand new clip obtained by the Every day Mail on October 23 revealed. Within the audition tape, the “Maintain Me Nearer” co-hitmaker learn a scene that was meant to be between Allie and Ryan Gosling‘s Noah Calhoun. Brit even posed alongside the now 42-year-old within the audition room once they had been each of their early 20s.
Within the uncommon clip, the blonde magnificence broke down in tears when reciting the traces reverse Ryan. Britney was disclosing to Ryan’s Noah that she was set to marry James Marsden‘s Lon Hammond when the scene proved emotional and led the pop star to cry. “Noah, you may’t marry two individuals. And I’m marrying Lon, so I ought to go, okay?” she mentioned by tears. Throughout the audition, the songstress rocked a white lace prime and wore her golden tresses straight down.
The movie’s casting director Matthew Barry even spoke about Brit’s audition throughout an interview with the tabloid. He revealed that Britney outperformed A-list actresses for the position together with Claire Danes, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams and Jessica Biel. “Britney wasn’t simply good – she was phenomenal,” he gushed over the now mother-of-two‘s then audition. “It was a tricky resolution. Britney blew us all away. Our jaws had been on the ground. I used to be blown away. Completely blown away. She introduced her A-game that day.”
The Grammy winner reportedly opened up concerning the audition in her upcoming memoir, The Girl in Me, due out on October 24. “The Pocket book casting got here all the way down to me and Rachel McAdams, and despite the fact that it might have been enjoyable to reconnect with Ryan Gosling after our time on The Mickey Mouse Membership, I’m glad I didn’t do it,” Brit penned in an excerpt obtained by DM. “If I had, as an alternative of engaged on my album Within the Zone, I’d have been appearing like a Forties heiress day and night time.”
Quickly after the audition tape landed on social media in the future forward of the discharge of the popstar’s e-book, lots of her followers took to the feedback to go with Brit’s appearing expertise. “in fact rachel mcadams is an skilled of her appearing craft – however britney’s audition for the pocket book wasn’t as dangerous as i although [sic] it might be as compared? like i see the potential,” one admirer tweeted, whereas one other added, “Give her an Oscar proper now.” Later, in 2005, Rachel and Ryan took residence the MTV Film and TV Award for “Greatest Kiss” for his or her work on the movie.
