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If Lucy's rite of passage veers a bit close to home, it's because Britney helped concoct "Crossroads" from her own life experiences.
"The fact that Lucy wanted to get away from her small town [is a similarity between her and me]," she said. "Her excuse at the time was to go see her mother, but in her heart she knew she was on her way to be in the contest — I can kind of relate to that to a certain extent, with me going off and leaving my small town. But other than that, the character is totally different from me. She was probably me four years ago, but not now. Lucy is very naive and shy. She's to herself a lot, but the thing I really like about Lucy is that she's very strong."
Despite the dissimilarities between Britney and her character, during a scene set at a karaoke bar with Lucy performing "I Love Rock 'N Roll," a #1 hit for Joan Jett in 1982, she simply couldn't keep the two separate.
"That was a lot of fun," she said. "I had been on tour forever, and all of a sudden I stopped for like four months [to work on the movie], so it had been a while since I'd performed. I got up on the little stage and was like, 'OK, I'm coming back.' It felt cool. I think there was a little [more] Britney in that and not so much Lucy."
While the film offers plenty in terms of introspective realization, "Crossroads" is also a quintessential road movie/buddy flick. Along their interstate jaunt, Lucy and her friends' interpersonal ties are strengthened in a way only endless hours on the road and atypical adventures in foreign places can provide.
"When I was younger, I had my three best friends — Jansen, Courtney, Laura Lynne. To this day I still have them. The whole concept came out of me being with my girlfriends and us growing up with each other. I wanted to do a teen movie, but I wanted to do something that teenagers could watch and be touched by. And all of them have their own little issues, but at the same time they have each other at the end of the day. That's what matters. We all have our problems, but if we have friends we can talk with about them, it makes you feel safe."
Nervous about the first kiss with Anson, especially with that stank tuna breath ... NEXT
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