Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders · Vulture & New York Magazine

What Britney Reveals, and What George Clooney Wants Resolved

October 20, 2023·29 min·2 clips

Britney Spears auditioned at 15 with Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing” while executives looked her up and down.

1. Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders centers on Britney Spears’s memoir, Netflix House locations, and the SAG-AFTRA strike. 2. Sam Sanders hosts comedian and writer Jay Jordan, whom Sanders calls Into It’s MVP and favorite guest. 3. The episode asks whether Britney Spears’s memoir, Netflix’s physical expansion, and celebrity strike activism deserve public attention. 4. Spears’s memoir The Woman in Me is scheduled for release on October 24, with Michelle Williams voicing the audiobook. 5. Spears reportedly declined live journalist interviews and supplied excerpts and photographs to People magazine. 6. Spears says she auditioned in New York with Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing” after leaving The Mickey Mouse Club. 7. Sanders and Jordan discuss Spears’s account of record executives looking her up and down while she was 15. 8. Spears describes doing method acting while filming Crossroads and says The Notebook role came down to her and Rachel McAdams. 9. Spears also recounts a snake hissing near her face during the VMA performance of “I’m a Slave 4 U.” 10. Spears writes that she had an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake because she believed he did not want to be a father. 11. Jordan wants Spears to discuss how companies pitted her, Christina, Jessica, and Mandy Moore against one another. 12. Sanders and Jordan imagine memoirs by Carson Daly, Usher, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Adam Sandler. 13. They invent The Sandman Cometh as a possible Adam Sandler memoir title and imagine him narrating in The Waterboy voice. 14. Netflix plans Netflix House destinations where fans can buy clothing, eat themed food, and attempt a Squid Game obstacle course. 15. Sanders says he visited Netflix’s Los Angeles restaurant twice and liked its food, drinks, and atmosphere. 16. Jordan rejects permanent Netflix brick-and-mortar locations but supports a temporary pop-up with DVDs, skating, and a DJ. 17. The SAG-AFTRA discussion covers stalled talks, streaming residuals, and the October 11 pause reported by The Hollywood Reporter. 18. Sanders cites a reported Zoom call involving George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Ben Affleck, Emma Stone, and Tyler Perry. 19. Pop-culture listeners who enjoy celebrity memoirs and entertainment industry debates. 20. Listeners seeking politics, science, or long-form investigative reporting.

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