Watch Britney Spears’s never-before-seen audition tape for The Notebook

The pop star gets teary-eyed with Ryan Gosling in the recently unearthed clip.

October 23, 2023
Watch Britney Spears’s never-before-seen audition tape for <i>The Notebook</i> Britney Spears. Screenshot via "Britney Spears auditions with Ryan Gosling for The Notebook in 2002"/Daily Mail YouTube  

The buzz around Britney Spears‘s forthcoming memoir, The Woman In Me, seems to be endless. Exclusive interviews and excerpts about Justin Timberlake are just a few of the tools that are building momentum behind the autobiography. Now, an unearthed tape of Spears auditioning for The Notebook has been released via the Daily Mail‘s YouTube channel.

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In the video, Britney is engaged in an emotional back and forth with the film’s male lead, Ryan Gosling (Gosling reads his lines from off camera). She cries as she delivers a heart-wrenching monologue, explaining why she can’t talk to Gosling’s character any longer. Watch the video below.

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In February 2022, Britney signed a $15 million book deal with Simon & Schuster to cover her “professional and personal” life. The deal followed the termination of her conservatorship a few months prior.

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Watch Britney Spears’s never-before-seen audition tape for The Notebook