\n<\/p>\n
Britney Spears<\/a>\u00a0was up for the role of a lifetime, and the footage has finally been found.<\/span><\/p>\n Spears’ screen test for the role of Allie Hamilton, opposite <\/span>Ryan Gosling<\/a>, in <\/span>The Notebook<\/span><\/em> has been released. Casting director Matthew Barry shared the footage with <\/span>The Daily Mail<\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n In the 2 1\/2-minute clip, a then 21-year-old Spears wears a simple white lace top as she stands in front of Gosling — who is off-screen — and a camera.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Spears becomes emotional on queue as she recites Allie’s monologue where she is faced with the decision to choose between Noah (Gosling) and her wealthy fianc\u00e9.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In a heart-wrenching moment, Spears begins to cry as she delivers the lines, “I prayed for you to die in the war, really. Well, not die. I would have felt completely horrible if you would die. But I kinda didn\u2019t want you to be alive anymore because I couldn’t bear the thought of you being with somebody else, or of us never seeing each other again. So I gotta go, OK?”<\/span><\/p>\n The clip ends before you could see the reaction from Gosling or the other people in the room.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n According to Barry, Spears blew everyone in the room away with her performance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “Britney wasn’t just good — she was phenomenal,” he told <\/span>The Daily Mail<\/span><\/em>. “It was a tough decision. Britney blew us all away. Our jaws were on the floor. I was blown away. Absolutely blown away. She brought her A-game that day.”<\/span><\/p>\n Barry said that Spears beat out Scarlett Johansson Jessica Biel, Mandy Moore, Kate Bosworth, Claire Danes and Amy Adams. The role ultimately went to a then-unknown, Rachel McAdams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Prior to her audition for <\/span>The Notebook<\/span><\/em>, the “Toxic” songstress played the lead role in the movie <\/span>Crossroads<\/span><\/em> in 2002.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n