Britney Spears Is No Longer The Virgin Mary

Paul @ Gone Hollywood | Friday, November 7, 2008

Britney Spears is no longer going to be playing the Virgin Mary according to Philippe Rebboah, the producer of the movie.

Rebboah announced to Fox News last year that he was hoping to cast Spears as the movie in the upcoming movie titled “Sweet Baby Jesus.”

The movie is about a pregnant 19-year-old unsure of her baby daddy who goes into labor on Christmas Eve in Bethlehem, Maryland.

Rebboah says that “Britney read the script and she really liked it and really wanted to play the role of Mary, She isn’t as scandalous in Europe as she is in the States, and I knew she would do a good job, but [people] were so against it and she was pressured. Then she ran into all the trouble with her family so we mutually decided the timing wasn’t right.”

Alison Pill, who stars in the upcoming movie Milk, will now take the role on and joins the cast of Tom Green, Lily Tomlin and Pierce Brosnan’s son, Sean Brosnan.

But that doesn’t mean Britney won’t have anything to do with the movie, “Britney was so touched by the script, so we are in talks about having her write and perform the closing number. Music of the ’70s is a real focus in the film. We don’t want her to do anything religious, but something that captures the beauty of the story.”

In other news, Britney reunited with Madonna on stage last night.

The role sounds perfect for Britney’s sister Jamie Lynn.