In 2006, Matt Lauer asked Ms. Spears to respond to criticism that she was a “redneck.” That same year, did the paparazzi actually take a graphic up-skirt photo of Ms. Spears a couple of months after she gave birth, and the public’s reaction was to largely laugh?
During the height of her public struggles in early 2008, a “Family Feud” episode featured contestants gleefully shouting out answers to “something Britney Spears has lost in the past year” with “her husband,” “her hair” and “her mind!” (Other approved answers included “her kids” and “her dignity.”)
These footage hunts were done by a team of expert archivists including Johanna Schiller, the archival producer; Melanie Bencosme, the associate producer; and Isabelle Larreur, the rights and clearances manager. The team worked under the direction of the producer/director Samantha Stark.
“Britney is so incredibly well documented and so much is out there that there was an overload of material,” Ms. Schiller said. “What was challenging was finding the choice moments in that ocean of stuff and trying to pinpoint material that hadn’t been out there so much before.”
One breakthrough on that front happened when Ms. Stark and Ms. Bencosme forged a rapport with Felicia Culotta, a longtime friend and assistant of Ms. Spears’s. Ms. Culotta had traveled with Ms. Spears for years and had used disposable cameras to document everything behind the scenes. Many of those images have never been seen publicly before.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/insider/britney-spears-father-documentary.html
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