Margot Robbie Has No Plans To Play Britney Spears In A Movie... Or Produce It!

Actress Margot Robbie recently revealed that she has no plans to play Britney Spears in a movie version of the pop star's memoir, "The Woman In Me," which was officially released on Tuesday, October 24, 2023.

Celebrities like the "Barbie" star, Brad Pitt, Reese Witherspoon, and Shonda Rhimes have all been rumored to be trying to secure the rights to Britney’s memoir in order to turn it into a visual medium, such as a movie or documentary. Later reports indicated that Shonda Rhimes is no longer interested in producing it through her Shondaland company, despite writing the screenplay for Britney's 2002 movie "Crossroads" and bringing the popular "Grey's Anatomy" and "Bridgerton" series to audiences around the world.

Now it seems that Margot Robbie is also setting the record straight, revealing that she does not want any part in bringing Britney's memoir to life. Not only does she have no plans to produce the feature, but she also does not plan to play the pop star when the project does eventually start casting.

Australian actress and producer Margot Robbie might be known for her wide range, but it appears that she has no interest in producing Britney Spears’ memoir or playing the pop star on the big screen. At the 2023 Variety Power of Women Los Angeles event, the “Babylon” star told Access Hollywood that reports of her production company LuckyChap’s involvement in bidding for the rights to Britney’s memoir were “not true.”

“No, I’m just hearing that tonight. It’s not true,” Robbie said.

When asked if she would ever consider playing the “Oops!... I Did It Again” singer on the big screen, Robbie repeated, “It’s not true; it’s not true.”

Fans can hear "The Wolf of Wall Street" actress deny the rumors herself in the video below:

It's no surprise that many top producers in Hollywood want to turn "The Woman In Me" into a movie or a docuseries, considering that the tell-all book sold 1.1 million copies in the first week! According to The Ankler, the bidding range is somewhere in the “mid-eight figures range.” While it was rumored that Margot Robbie wanted to produce the film through her LuckyChap Productions company, and Shonda Rhimes through her Shondaland production company, it appears that those initial reports were inaccurate.

It remains to be seen if Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment production company or Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine are still interested in the project. One insider told Page Six that the project is "only beginning to take shape" and noted that Britney had already rescheduled a meeting with an unnamed top producer "at the last minute" because she "didn't feel up to it."

One producer who previously worked with the "Toxic" singer told The Ankler that Britney “doesn’t give a s--- who you are,” adding, “She’s always been that way. It’s just Britney.” However, producers are reportedly being "extremely compassionate" considering the sensitive nature of her memoir, which talks about her love life, her budding career in the entertainment industry, her relationship with her estranged family, and her controversial 13-year conservatorship, which lasted from February 2008 to November 2021.

In one of the first excerpts from Britney’s memoir released ahead of the official publication date, the pop star explained that she felt like a “child-robot” in an excerpt published by People magazine.

“I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself,” she wrote in her memoir. “The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.”

She also gave a nod to the title of the book, writing, “The woman in me was pushed down for a long time. They wanted me to be wild onstage, the way they told me to be and to be a robot the rest of the time. I felt like I was being deprived of those good secrets of life — those fundamental supposed sins of indulgence and adventure that make us human.”

“They wanted to take away that specialness and keep everything as rote as possible. It was death to my creativity as an artist,” she added, admitting that she felt “like a shadow of myself” during that time of her life.

Britney Spears' memoir "The Woman In Me" was officially released on Tuesday, October 24, 2023.