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'A Cinderella Story' Almost Starred Another Iconic Pop Star — Not Hilary Duff


'A Cinderella Story' screenwriter Leigh Dunlap revealed that Hilary Duff's lead role was initially written with Britney Spears in mind

“I distinctly remember I was on a train, and I had the cover of Rolling Stone magazine that Britney Spears did — the first one she ever did that was sort of controversial because she was so young and it was very sexualized,” the film’s screenwriter, Leigh Dunlap, told TV Insider in an interview published on Tuesday, July 16. Because the film wasn’t made until a few years after Spears’ 1999 cover — which featured her lying on a bed in a black bra and polka dot pajama shorts — Dunlap and the movie’s crew had to look elsewhere for their leading lady. A Cinderella Story follows Sam as she dreams of getting into Princeton University to escape life with her self-absorbed stepmother and stepsisters, played by Jennifer Coolidge, Madeline Zima and Andrea Avery Ray, respectively.

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