Jamie Lynn Spears is opening up—not about her fractured relationship with sister Britney Spears or time as a baby actor at Nickelodeon, however an unsuccessful audition for Twilight, which started filming the yr her common teen sequence Zoey 101 went off the air.
In an interview with Selection accomplished earlier than the actors’ strike, Spears recalled drama surrounding the tip of Zoey 101 after 4 seasons—a call made previous to her being pregnant, however introduced alongside information that she was anticipating a child at age 16. “I believe after I wrapped Zoey there have been all these plans of issues like, ‘Let’s go do films.’ I used to be studying scripts for issues I used to be enthusiastic about,” she instructed the outlet.
One such script? “I did learn for Twilight,” Spears stated. “This was earlier than vampires had actually made their mark. Now all of us love to observe tales about vampires, however I actually was like, ‘Vampires? Are you kidding me?’ I keep in mind studying it and going, ‘Who’s going to observe these vampires?’ Boy, was I incorrect.”
Spears beforehand recalled this expertise to Nylon, revealing that she was unknowingly pregnant in the course of the audition. “I keep in mind sitting on this little room, and I believe Lily Collins was there, and I felt so sick. Little did I do know, I used to be pregnant,” she instructed the publication in 2020.
As a substitute of showing in Twilight, Spears retreated from the highlight to Mississippi, the place she welcomed her daughter Maddie, now age 13. “I used to be so involved about bringing one other human being into this world, however I wanted to determine who I used to be. And the press wasn’t precisely very good,” Spears stated. “I wished to get as distant from it as I may.”
Spears maintains that whereas elevating her daughter “was not one thing that I remorse or held me again,” she did harbor fears that her performing profession wouldn’t bounce again. “I used to be like, ‘What if it doesn’t work out?’ But it surely was one thing I all the time wished,” Spears stated. “I believe I used to be afraid to confess it to myself as a result of I didn’t wanna give all people the satisfaction of claiming, ‘It’s not gonna occur for you. You had a child, keep in mind?’”
Since returning to the display in 2020, Spears has appeared on Netflix’s Candy Magnolias, which returns for a 3rd season on July 20, and stars in Zoey 102, a revival of her hit present that debuts through Paramount+ on July 27.
