Addison Rae Says ‘No One’ Deserves to Play Britney Spears in the Singer's Upcoming Biopic

Addison Rae does not want to star as Britney Spears in the singer's forthcoming biopic. Though Rae is a Spears superfan, she says “no one” truly deserves to play the princess of pop on-screen.

“I honestly don’t think anyone deserves to play her. She’s such an enigma and such an icon," the musician and dancer recently told iHeart Radio's The Hit List, before addressing the frequent comparisons between herself and Spears. “I don’t even think it’s right to compare me to her at all. I think she really, really created something that is untouchable and so in its own lane that nobody will ever truly be able to replicate what she did for music, and even the entertainment industry.”

Rae's Britney Spears fandom runs deep, and she told The Hit List that she wants the singer herself fto be the guiding force in casting an actor to fictionally step into her shoes, not fan desires or media speculation. “I support anything and everything that Britney Spears ever wants to do in her life and career, and I think she’ll have the best opinion on who she thinks that should be,” Rae said.

News of a Britney Spears biopic dropped earlier this summer, after Wicked director Jon M. Chu and Universal pictures landed the rights to her bestselling memoir The Woman in Me. It's common pop culture knowledge that Addison Rae is a fan of the singer's book; she was famously pictured (and memed) reading it while on a walk, and her pal Troye Sivan paid homage to the moment with his 2024 Halloween costume.

While a plethora of names have been tossed around to potentially play Spears, nothing has been set in stone casting-wise yet. Way back in 2022, Millie Bobby Brown called Spears her “dream” role. “Just growing up in the public eye, watching her videos, watching interviews of her when she was younger… I feel like I could tell her story in the right way,” she told Drew Barrymore at the time. We'll just have to wait and see.