Britney Spears Speaks Out on ‘Crossroads’ Method Acting Being ‘Messed Up,’ Losing Out on ‘The Notebook’ and Being a ‘Child-Robot’ During Conservatorship

3 comments

1. Will it read like her Instagram posts?

2. As some with PTSD, I’m resonating so much with her words on her conservatorship. This is going to be a hard, but necessary, read.

3. This quote

   >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. If they thought that, they were right.

   And this:

   >“I imagine there are people in the acting field who have dealt with something like that, where they had trouble separating themselves from a character,” she continues. “I hope I never get close to that occupational hazard again. Living that way, being half yourself and half a fictional character, is messed up. After a while you don’t know what’s real anymore.”

   Doesn’t sound like method acting, more like some kind of psychological issue.