Lena Dunham No Longer Working On Polly Pocket Movie: “I Don’t Think I Have That In Me”
deadline.comLena Dunham has exited the Polly Pocket movie. The Girls alum revealed in a new interview that she is no longer working on the movie script for the film based on the Mattel toy.
I’m going to tell you something here that I haven’t told anyone: “I’m not going to make the Polly Pocket movie,” she said in an interview with The New Yorker. “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.” She continued, “What a f***ing 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.”’And 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.” “I felt like, unless I can do it that way, I’m not going to do it.
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