2 Stars Were Originally Attached to 'Barbie' Before Margot Robbie!
justjared.comThe Barbie movie was the biggest film of 2023, but you might be surprised by this fun fact! If you don’t know, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling star as Barbie and Ken (in a world of 11 Barbies and 5 Kens, all played by different stars.) However, 2 other stars were first attached to the film before Margot. Keep reading to find out… Scroll down to see who else was lined up for the film… Amy Schumer Amy Schumer was originally cast as Barbie when Sony was developing the project, but in 2017, it was revealed she had dropped out of the project.
At the time of her exit, she cited “scheduling conflicts” with her 2018 film I Feel Pretty as the reason for her departure. In 2022, she went on to clarify what really happened. “They definitely didn’t want to do it the way I wanted to do it, the only way I was interested in doing it,” she told THR.
She went on to explain that she and her sister/writing partner Kim Caramele wrote Barbie as an “ambitious inventor,” while the studio asked that her invention be a high heel made out of Jell-O. Amy also said that she was sent a pair of Manolo Blahniks to celebrate the film deal. “The idea that that’s just what every woman must want, right there, I should have gone, ‘You’ve got the wrong gal,’” she said. Anne Hathaway Anne Hathaway reportedly was being eyed to replace Amy Schumer after she exited the project in 2017.
By 2018, reports emerged that Anne‘s version of the film had been delayed and would instead be released in 2020.
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