Britney Spears' career would have been very different if she got THIS major movie role

Britney Spears is one of the most iconic pop stars of all time, but her music career could have been very different if her movie career actually took off.

Though Spears' first appearance in a movie was Longshot in 2001, her first proper film was Crossroads in 2002. It did not receive positive reviews and critics weren't exactly kind to her acting prowess.

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Even still, two years later she found herself in the race to play one of the leads in The Notebook alongside former Disney co-star Ryan Gosling. Rachel McAdams got the role, and Spears admits she is relieved to have missed out.

"The Notebook casting came down to me and Rachel McAdams, and even though it would have been fun to reconnect with Ryan Gosling after our time on The Mickey Mouse Club, I'm glad I didn't do it," Spears wrote in her new memoir, Woman in Me.

"If I had, instead of working on my album In the Zone I'd have been acting like a 1940s heiress day and night."

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The Notebook (2004)

Allie Hamilton comes to Seabrook, North Carolina, to vacation with her family in the early 1940s. There she meets the beautiful Noah Calhoun who is in love with her from the first moment. Despite their very different backgrounds, the two experience a summer full of passion and passion. But when Allie moves out and Noah enlists in the military, the love seems over for good.

Directed by: Nick Cassavetes
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams and Gena Rowlands

Britney Spears struggled with method acting

Even though the plot of Crossroads had a fairly emotionally light narrative of three friends on a road trip, it was a darker experience for Spears as she apparently delved into method acting.

"The experience wasn't easy for me," she also explains in her memoir.

"My problem wasn't with anyone involved in the production but with what acting did to my mind. I think I started Method acting — only I didn't know how to break out of my character. I really became this other person. Some people do Method acting, but they're usually aware of the fact that they're doing it. But I didn't have any separation at all.

"That was pretty much the beginning and end of my acting career, and I was relieved,"