"There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears"
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The line “we could have whatever we wanted” is blunt in a way actors don’t always allow themselves to be. It collapses the romance of artistry into logistics and access. Sets run on scarcity for most people: time, attention, comfort, dignity. Drop in a star (or someone treated like one) and suddenly scarcity is suspended, not because the work changed, but because the social contract did. Manning places herself inside that temporary kingdom: “I felt like Britney Spears.” Not “a star,” not “an icon,” but Britney, shorthand for a very specific kind of fame: maximal, glossy, hyper-managed, and weirdly vulnerable.
There’s also a sly double edge: calling someone “royalty” flatters them while revealing how feudal the industry still is. Everyone acts egalitarian until the entourage energy shows up and the rules rewrite themselves. Manning’s intent feels less like worship than astonishment at how quickly proximity to celebrity upgrades your reality - and how seductively normal that can start to feel.
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Manning, Taryn. (2026, January 17). There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/theres-definitely-a-whole-different-vibe-on-the-72409/
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Manning, Taryn. "There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/theres-definitely-a-whole-different-vibe-on-the-72409/.
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"There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/theres-definitely-a-whole-different-vibe-on-the-72409/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.




