[NEWS] JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE TELLS 'PLAYBOY' CHRISTINA AGUILERA IS A PRODIGY

PLAYBOY: What was in the water on the set of The All New Mickey Mouse Club that turned so many of those Mouseketeers into stars?

TIMBERLAKE: A really good casting director, I’d say. What’s funny is I didn’t know at the time that the people around me would go on to so many great things. The exception was Christina Aguilera. She was the prodigy. She could sing better than the adults who had huge deals at the time. We always felt she was going to become Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey or whoever she wanted to be. And also Ryan Gosling. I thought he had charisma that was just beaming, which has turned out to serve him really well as an actor. Even now I still root for that family of actors. I still love to see people from those days making good on their talent. It’s a special connection.

Source: Playboy