Claire Donald

So it was all a go.

And while Britney toured, Shonda wrote.

So Shonda, as we will see throughout her whole career, was determined to show the real person behind the pop star image, not the caricature our misogynistic society had turned her into.

but a complex young woman with agency and control over her own story.

Talk about it.

Talk about it.

Shonda said, the idea that we could portray her as a three-dimensional young woman was interesting to me.

To have mean-girled her and turned her into a caricature would have been a mistake.

At least someone did this for her.

I know.

Probably.

Although I will say, listen to our Britney Spears episode, when she was making that album Blackout, I think,

Those producers really encouraged her to be herself.

A great album.

One of the best.

One of the best.

So it was important for Shonda to show people from diverse backgrounds, and the film features some surprisingly heavy topics.

Teen pregnancy, parental abandonment.

Right.

Okay, the plot of Crossroads, if you don't know, which I'm sure now you're like, I have to see this movie because it sounds amazing.