While Britney Spears is going through a delicate moment in life after her arrest a couple of weeks ago for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol, others claim her figure even as a symbol of women’s rights.
Director Sofia Coppola spoke about Spears in these terms in an interview with ELLE Magazine, where she confessed that she fantasizes about directing the biopic about the life of the ‘Toxic’ singer, which is currently in the hands of Jon M. Chu.
Coppola says she is currently “obsessed” with Spears and can’t stop watching documentaries about her and reading her memoirs, ‘The Woman I Am.’ Coppola acknowledges that watching Diane Sawyer’s interview with Spears in 2003, in which the journalist seemed to suggest that she was to blame for her breakup with Justin Timberlake, has had a “deep impact” on her.
Coppola, who during that time was directing his famous film ‘Marie Antoinette’ (2006), now sees Spears’ figure with different eyes and highlights that the episodes of her shaving her head and her attack on the paparazzi with an umbrella seem to her to be “totally punk moments.” “She has become a symbol of women’s rights,” says the filmmaker. “Nothing that happened to him would ever have happened to a man.”
Finally, Coppola acknowledges that he would like to direct his biopic: “Supposedly Jon Chu is doing it, but yes, I would love to work on that story.” If he does keep it, we hope it’s better than his movie about Priscilla Presley.
