Rebel Wilson Transforms Into Britney Spears for New Netflix Comedy ‘Senior Year’
Ashley Turner
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Rebel Wilson Transforms Into Britney Spears for New Netflix Comedy ‘Senior Year’
Rebel Wilson is channeling her inner pop princess. The Aussie actor went all out to recreate a classic Britney Spears music video for her new movie Senior Year. In the new Netflix movie, Rebel Wilson plays the role of a former cheer captain who “falls off a pyramid and into a 20-year coma” and later “wakes up as a 37-year-old woman, ready to return to high school, regain her status and claim the prom queen crown that eluded her.”
The film is full of late ’90s and early 2000s nostalgia, including a scene where the 42-year-old actress reenacts the music video for Spears’ 1999 song, “(You Drive Me) Crazy.” Wilson told Entertainment Tonight that she was “nervous” about getting Spears’ blessing for the shoot.
“We had to get Britney’s permission. I was really nervous [thinking], ‘Oh my gosh, I hope she knows we’re [paying] homage to her with this,'” Wilson said. “It was really awesome that she gave permission to do it… “Crazy” was just such a cool song, such an iconic video clip… I just thought that would be really cool.”
“We recreated that exact set,” she added. “What was weird is I didn’t really practice that much. When I shot it, I tried to just channel Britney and then immediately our director, Alex Hardcastle, was like, ‘Oh my God, you were, like, so Britney.’ In certain takes I really just believed I was her. It comes out really funny… That was our last day of shooting and it was like 110 degrees in Atlanta, but once they pump that Britney music I just wanted to give it my all.”
During a May 6 appearance on The Late Late Show With James Corden, The Pitch Perfect star revealed that she may have given too much while shooting the scene.”I love Britney, and I just wanted to pay homage to her because 20 years earlier in the film in 2022, she was like the biggest star in the world, so we did the “Crazy” video … when I’m dancing, I just really like to give it, just give my all to it,” Wilson said.
“And then what happens is that I fall over, and so in the Britney thing, they actually keep the take where I’m dancing and loving it and then I fall forward out of frame. But then I’m like ‘The show must go on…’ so I just like [pops back up] and then I get into it.”
Writer and actor Brandon Scott Jones revealed the Crazy music video was high on his wish list when he first envisioned the film. Jones explained to Los Angeles Magzine that the movie isn’t so much a film as a love letter to Spears. “That’s exactly what that is,” he said. “She got me through a lot in high school and the way we treated pop stars back then was a little rough so I just wanted to let her know how much she meant to people.”
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Wilson told Los Angeles Magazine that regardless of how the film is received, Spears’ verdict is the only one that truly matters. “I love Britney, and so does my character in the film,” Wilson said. “It’s good. I just loved it, and I love Britney, so I’m sending her lots of love, and I hope she likes it. She’s the only person I care about.” Senior Year premieres May 13 on Netflix.
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