Zack Sharf Digital News Director With Britney Spears‘ highly-anticipated memoir “The Woman in Me” gearing up for its Oct. 24 publication date, People magazine is running several excerpts from the book in which the music icon opens up about her conservatorship, acting career and more.
Reflecting on her 2002 movie “Crossroads,” Spears noted “the experience wasn’t easy for me” as she unknowingly went Method for the role. “My problem wasn’t with anyone involved in the production but with what acting did to my mind,” she writes. “I think I started Method acting — only I didn’t know how to break out of my character.
I really became this other person. Some people do Method acting, but they’re usually aware of the fact that they’re doing it.
But I didn’t have any separation at all. I ended up walking differently, carrying myself differently, talking differently. I was someone else for months while I filmed ‘Crossroads.’ Still to this day, I bet the girls I shot that movie with think, She’s a little…quirky.
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