The actual casting status
Chu says people around the world send him hundreds of messages and audition tapes each day. Those submissions are unsolicited: he is not yet evaluating actors for the lead role and says the production has not entered formal casting.
What comes first
The director says he wants the story locked before thinking about who will portray Spears. Liz Meriwether is working on the screenplay, which adapts Spears's 2023 memoir The Woman in Me.
What has not been announced
No performer has been chosen to play Spears, and the flood of auditions is not evidence that a shortlist exists. The confirmed update is simply that story development remains ahead of casting.
Update note: Original source-read casting-status briefing that distinguishes unsolicited auditions from an active casting process.
Original headline: Le réalisateur du biopic sur Britney Spears est submergé de candidatures pour incarner la pop star
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September 27 French report on Chu's audition comments.
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