Heather Morris, who plays the namesake Brittany on “Glee”, opened up about the arc of Tuesday’s episode, dishing that the glee clubbers rebel against Shuester’s ban on retooling Britney Spears’ hits as they said that’s their homage to her.
“Through a special substance, I go under and have a couple of dream sequences — not only myself, but with Santana [Naya Rivera],” Morris told Australian magazine TV Week. “A lot of it has to do with Will [Matthew Morrison] not allowing us to perform Britney Spears songs, because he doesn’t agree with what kind of entertainer she is, so it’s our fight to do Britney. But it’s not just us doing Britney in show choir; there are other sequences — it’s our homage to her.”
We already know the McKinley high-schoolers are going to revamp Brit’s debut smash ” … Baby One More Time” and her Madonna match-up “Me Against the Music.” The song-and-dance crew has also reached beyond Spears’ trendsetting clips to one of her iconic stage performances: the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards rendition of “I’m a Slave 4 U.”
One picture of “Glee” also surfaced yesterday. Heather Morris rocked a bejeweled green-and-blue two-piece similar to Britney Spears’ skimpy 2001 Video Music Awards ensemble, with a yellow boa draped over her shoulders.
Tuesday’s show is shaping up to be a busy one for Heather Morris, who is also vamping it up opposite Spears herself in their reworking of “Music.” However, the actress insisted her previous encounters with Spears helped her stay cool around the pop icon.
“It wasn’t really nerve-racking, because I’ve met her before and I wasn’t really overwhelmed by who she is,” she said. “But the idea of what she has given us for the show and, for me, getting to dance with her and play with her on set, I was just staring at her at one point and thinking, ‘This is just so frickin’ awesome.’ “
