Sofia Coppola is a fan of Britney Spears! The daughter of filmmakers Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola is an actress and a filmmaker in her own right. She has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Golden Lion, and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and is now using her platform in order to make a comment about the “Toxic” singer’s biopic, which one fan called “cheeky.”
Sofia Coppola Describes Britney Spears As A ‘Women’s Rights’ Symbol
In an interview with Elle, Sofia said that she is “kind of obsessed” with Britney Spears after watching documentaries made about her life and reading her memoir, “The Woman In Me.” In 2007, Britney made headlines for shaving her head, which Sofia referred to as a “punk moment” in history.
“She’s become this symbol of women’s rights. “That would never happen to a man,” she said, although she did not clarify what “that” meant, although she could be talking about her conservatorship. In the year following her mental health breakdown, she was subject to a controversial 13-year court-ordered conservatorship that lasted until November 2021.
Coppola Has A Cheeky Response To The Britney Spears Biopic
Although “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu is currently working on a biopic based on her best-selling novel, little is known about the project. In 2025, Chu told Entertainment Tonight that Britney would be “be very involved” in the project when it came to fruition.
“I haven’t really started anything fully yet, but she will be very involved in this. I have ideas and things, an approach, but it’s very early,” he said at the time.
In her interview, Sofia said, “Supposedly Jon Chu is doing it,” but added, “I hope, yeah, I would love to do that story.” A fan posted the screenshot of the interview on Reddit with the caption, “Love her cheeky comment about the biopic.”
Fans Debate Who Should Create The Biopic
Many fans immediately took to the comments with their opinions. Most expressed a desire to see Sofia direct the project. “I’ve always imagined Sofia would be the one to direct the biopic. I don’t see Jon Chu doing it right at all, and not merely because he’s a man,” one fan commented.
“Sofia gets ittt, girlhood & womanhood, the feeling of being trapped. She’d totally pack a punch with her interpretation and direction. This would mean a lot,” another user agreed.
“She’s my favorite director. The film would be stunning. But Jon Chu can really direct a musical number. So I’m assuming anything performance-related will be stellar in his take. But yeah, Sofia would craft a better film if the focus were more about her struggles,” a third fan chimed in.
They went on to write, “I think it’s gonna be more spectacle with Jon Chu. Ironic kinda. The real Britney has always been this delicate flower (I don’t mean weak or shy. Just burdened with a lot more than she should have ever had to deal with) behind all the manufactured spectacle. That’s the real story. Hope he finds it.”
Britney Spears Explains Why She Shaved Off Her Hair
In an excerpt of “The Woman In Me” shared by PEOPLE magazine, the “Lucky” singer explained why she shaved her head.
“I’d been eyeballed so much growing up. I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager,” she wrote. “Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back.”
“Under the conservatorship, I was made to understand that those days were now over,” she continued. “I had to grow my hair out and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take.”
Britney Said The Conservatorship Made Her Feel Like A ‘Shadow’ Of Herself
Elsewhere in her memoir, she opened up about the struggles of performing during her conservatorship, including her Piece of Me residency in Las Vegas.
“I would do little bits of creative stuff here and there, but my heart wasn’t in it anymore. As far as my passion for singing and dancing, it was almost a joke at that point,” she writes. “Thirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself.”
“I think back now on my father and his associates having control over my body and my money for that long, and it makes me feel sick,” she continued. “Think of how many male artists gambled all their money away; how many had substance abuse or mental health issues. No one tried to take away their control over their bodies and money. I didn’t deserve what my family did to me.”