Britney Spears is a standard, candy and shy particular person, says documentary director
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enton Bailey, who directed Britney Spears in a documentary about her life, has stated she is a “sweet, normal and shy” particular person.
The filmmaker bought to know the pop star in the course of the 2013 documentary I Am Britney Jean when she was releasing a brand new album and had her first Las Vegas residency.
Bailey stated, once they filmed Spears, as she launched 2013’s Britney Jean, he found that she is a “normal, boring person” and described her as “sweet and lovely” and “shy”.
He added: “She says…’It pays to be aggressive, and speak your mind’ and she said, ‘I’m just not like that, you know, I’m shy, I’m thoughtful about what other people are thinking, I care what other people think’.
Spears was under a complex legal arrangement, started in 2008, which allowed her father Jamie to control her freedom and finances.
The 41-year-old American singer fought to end her conservatorship which after 13 years in November 2021 was terminated by a judge in Los Angeles terminated– a legal arrangement that is usually reserved for the very ill or old.
During the court case, fans often appeared outside holding signs saying “free Britney”.
Bailey additionally stated: “I just think that the fact (is the) free Britney movement may not have done her any favours.”
When requested about what he thought going into working along with her, he stated: “I sensed a disconnect between the way she was treated in the media, and the work she was doing.
“I felt that albums, like Blackout and Circus. I thought they were masterpieces.
“So I couldn’t, I couldn’t quite get…It was just (it) seemed so weird to me that there was this sort of critical pile on, you know, negative attention.”
He added that discovering in the course of the documentary that she was “a normal person” was a revelation.
Bailey stated he “didn’t get” the identical conclusion because the filmmakers of Framing Britney Spears, which examines her remedy by the hands of the media and led to renewed curiosity in her conservatorship.
Spears, who didn’t authorise the programme, later stated she didn’t “watch the documentary” however what she has seen of it left her “embarrassed by the light they put me in”.
Speaking about his World of Wonder (Wow) produced documentary that was authorised by Spears, Bailey additionally stated: “When we made (our documentary), she did seem to have a good relationship with her parents and manager and that’s not to say that… there could well have been tensions underneath that we didn’t see.”
Bailey co-founded Wow, which created a number of Emmy-award successful actuality TV present Ru Paul’s Drag Race, with Randy Barbato, and has additionally launched a guide about his work in TV.
He stated: “People are infinitely varied and drag celebrates that Drag Race celebrates that, but variety, and makes everybody feel welcome and included and television is the sort of delivery device of that idea.
“It’s a really important idea in terms of who we’re going to be as a people in the future and I think you’re seeing I think we’re seeing a backlash to that right now in the states.”
Bailey’s guide ScreenAge: How TV Shaped Our Reality From Tammy Faye To RuPaul’s Drag Race was launched on March 28.