Lena Dunham drops out of ‘Polly Pocket’ film — refuses to have ‘body dissected again’ in Netflix show
nypost.cominterview with the New Yorker that she is no longer attached to Mattel’s “Polly Pocket” movie. “I’m not going to make the Polly Pocket movie,” Dunham told the outlet. “I wrote a script, and I was working on it for three years.
But I remember someone once said to me about Nancy Meyers: the thing that’s the most amazing about her is that the movie she makes or the movie she would be making with or without a studio, with or without notes — that somehow her taste manages to intersect perfectly with what the world wants.
What a f–king gift that is. And Nora Ephron, too, who was such a mentor to me, but always said, ‘Go be weird. Don’t kowtow to anyone.’”The film was announced in 2021 with “Emily in Paris” lead Lily Collins set to star, with Dunham writing and directing.
The movie is one of Mattel’s follow-ups to the smash hit “Barbie,” starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. “I think Greta [Gerwig] managed this incredible feat [with ‘Barbie’], which was to make this thing that was literally candy to so many different kinds of people and was perfectly and divinely Greta,” Dunham said. “And I just — I felt like, unless I can do it that way, I’m not going to do it.
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