Sarah opened the site yesterday writing about Variety’s “young Hollywood impact report” and the stars considered to be the new or future movie stars of their generation. Her post focused on Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, and Daisy Edgar-Jones. Further to that, Variety hosted a Power of Young Hollywood party last night and as far as I can tell, none of those three were in attendance. 

 

Sabrina Carpenter was there, though, fresh off her new Variety cover story. And also Sadie Sink and my beloved Marcello Hernandez who had an underrated breakout season on Saturday Night Live this past year. He’s so f-cking cute, I hope he’s not overlooked this upcoming season as the show commemorates its 50th anniversary. Marcello got a cover, too! (Although is it just me or does he look alarmingly like Andrew Keegan here?) 

 

Back to Sabrina, though because, as we’ve heard, and as Taylor Swift predicted, it’s been the Summer of Sabrina and that Variety feature was also a promo for her upcoming album, Short n’ Sweet, which I’m looking forward to, but I have to be an old bitch and complain about that punctuation. Why is there only one apostrophe?!????

 

Anticipation is high for Short n’ Sweet, of course, because of the massive success of “Espresso” and its follow-up “Please Please Please”, two of the summer’s most irresistible songs of the season. “I beg you don’t embarrass me, motherf-cker” is a GREAT line. So Sabrina is riding high, and this is three years after Olivia Rodrigo’s “drivers license” dominated 2021, casting Sabrina as a supporting character in Gen Z’s most defining pop culture love triangle. The two girls from that drama have become major pop girlies and, well, I don’t remember the dude’s name… which is how it should be!

 

Soooooo….why are we talking about Blake Lively playing Britney Spears in the biopic instead of Sabrina Carpenter?! 

Blake showed up in Britney’s dress at the NYC premiere of It Ends With Us earlier this week and for whatever reason, social media decided to make that a conversation, following the news that Britney’s memoir, The Woman in Me, has been acquired for adaptation. It’s a nothingburger of speculation, nobody is f-cking talking to or about Blake Lively playing Britney. 

But you know who could and should play Britney? 

Sabrina Carpenter!

It’s so obvious and I’m far from the first person to say this, so I shouldn’t even have to explain why, but she is, in her own right, a popstar, and she has acting experience – and not just acting experience but DISNEY acting experience!

 

And you know the timing would be great for it, too, because Sabrina has already recognised herself for who she is, she wouldn’t need to play Britney to secure her celebrity – people already know her from this year and her two big hits and the upcoming album, and she’s heading out on tour to support it. Her identity is established so there’s no worry here that playing Britney would overshadow her own achievements. The only downside here, really, is that it’s TOO obvious. But sometimes too obvious works. It worked for Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool, it worked for Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr Strange, it worked for Henry Cavill in The Witcher and it should work for Sabrina Carpenter as Britney Spears. Enough with this Blake Lively talk, ffs. 

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