Let’s go, girls! Amid Britney Spears’ rise to the pop charts, she made her feature film debut in 2002’s Crossroads.“I was much more interested in the young woman that I met than the image that people had of her,” screenwriter Shonda Rhimes — who penned the script before her Grey’s Anatomy or Bridgerton fame — recalled to Vice’s Broadly in 2016 of the “Circus” songstress. “She was a person, and I don’t think anyone at the time was looking at her — because it’s such a misogynistic society — as a person.
The idea that we could portray her as a three-dimensional young woman was interesting to me. To have mean-girled her and turned her into a caricature would have been a mistake.”The film, directed by Tamra Davis, followed three high school graduates, played by Spears, Zoe Saldana and Taryn Manning, as they road tripped across the country from their Louisiana hometown to sunny Los Angeles for various personal and professional reasons.
In the process, they each discover their own identities and deepen their friendship.“I have not spoken to Britney in 10 years, but we had an amazing time on Crossroads,” the Orange Is the New Black alum — who played Mimi in the 2000s classic — exclusively told Us Weekly in September 2021. “We spent months in the car that we took ‘cross country’ sharing stories, joking, laughing and had a friendship for years, especially while filming.
I wish her only the best and am so happy about the progress of this week [amid her conservatorship case]. Nothing but love for Brit!”The film also starred the likes of Kim Cattrall, Dan Aykroyd and Justin Long to round out the cast of Spears’ character Lucy’s family and friends.“I just remember [Britney] being so nice,” Long, who played Lucy’s lab partner Henry in
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