Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Michelle Williams has, in an act of profound sympathy and of ecstatic transformation, given another astounding performance in a career full of them.
And it’s in the unlikeliest of venues. One might expect the audiobook for Britney Spears’ memoir “The Woman in Me” to have been narrated by its author — herself no stranger to performing.
But, in the book’s introduction, Spears goes on mic to explain that the book’s subject matter is too emotional for her to read aloud.
And so, it falls to the five-time Oscar nominee to give voice to the contours of Spears’ life. It’s a canny choice, and a surprising one.
Read more on variety.com