It's 2020, and Jamie Lynn Spears is ready to step back into the spotlight. "I had been in denial, not really admitting to myself how much I missed acting," Spears tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I was working on my music for a while, and then I focused on my family for a bit.
With acting, I was just waiting for a project that made sense." The former child star is making her long-awaited return to television in Netflix's new drama Sweet Magnolias, adapted from author Sherryl Woods' popular collection of romance novels set in the fictional town of Serenity, South Carolina.
Spears, 29, finally found the right role in Noreen Fitzgibbons, a young nurse whose affair with Dr. Bill Townsend (played by Chris Klein) and subsequent pregnancy make her.