Anne Hathaway reacts to Margot Robbie’s ‘Barbie’ after her version got scrapped
nypost.comdidn’t party. Oscar winner Anne Hathaway revealed that she felt “lucky” that her “Barbie” film never got unboxed. “What’s so exciting about what Greta [Gerwig] and Margot [Robbie] and that phenomenal team [did] is they hit a bullseye,” Hathaway explained during an appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast Monday.“The bullseye caused the entire world to reach this level of ecstasy,” the “Devil Wears Prada” actress continued. “Now imagine that version … that much energy, that much anticipation, that much emotion … but it’s not the right version.
I actually think of it as a lucky thing [it didn’t get made.]”Hathaway was initially supposed to star as the iconic Mattel doll after comedian Amy Schumer backed out over creative differences.By October 2018, the project was ultimately scrapped after Sony Pictures’ bid on the rights lapsed. “Barbie” was later optioned by Robbie, 33, and Warner Bros., who then brought Gerwig on to direct.“Margot is sublime,” Hathaway praised on Monday. “What she is doing as a creative person and a producer is so exciting and inspiring.” “The mythic giants they toppled with [‘Barbie’] that have kept certain narratives in place that have not allowed opportunities to develop for so many people … they ran right through it,” the actress gushed. “Just as a cinemagoer and as a woman in Hollywood since I was a kid, I’m thrilled by the development.”According to the “Les Misérables” actress, Robbie and Gerwig, 40, ended up making “the best possible” version of “Barbie.” “If I believed that the version I was attached to could have done that, I might feel differently about it,” the “Ocean’s Eight” star admitted. “It’s easy just to be thrilled and happy [for them].
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