Seven years before Greta Gerwig’s version of Barbie Premiered, a film based on the popular doll was already working on Sony, with a comedian attached to the project.
And in 2017, she announced she would not be able to appear in the film due to schedule conflicts, but earlier this year she revealed the real reason behind the exit.
“I think we said it was conflict scheduling,” she said on a June 2023 episode of Watch’s live show. “That’s what we said. But it really seemed like a creative difference. But there’s a new team behind it and it looks very feminist and cool, so I watch this movie.”
Trainwreck Star’s sentiment reiterates what she previously shared about the direction she noticed the project was on.
“They definitely didn’t want to do it the way I wanted to do it. It’s the only way I was interested in doing it,” she told a Hollywood reporter in March 2022.
Noting that she wanted Barbie to be the “inventor,” she says the studio has the idea that her creation would be a heel made of Geloo, and later sends her a pair of Manolo Braniks.
It’s the idea that every woman has to want right there,” she said, “I should have done ‘You have the wrong gal’. ”
