Michael Cera Reveals He Emailed Greta Gerwig To Beg For ‘Barbie’ Role: ‘I Need To Do It!’
etcanada.comMichael Cera has been winning raves for his performance in “Barbie” as Allan, the singular male character in Barbieland who isn’t one of the many iterations of Ken.
In a new video interview with GQ conducted prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike, Cera recalls that he wanted the role so much that he took drastic action when he learned his manager had offered a lukewarm response to a potential “Barbie” offer. “It was a kind of very last-minute casting,” Cera said. READ MORE: Why Michael Cera Wasn’t Included In The ‘Barbie’ Cast Group Texts “My manager got a call checking on my availability for it, and he called me and he said, ‘I got a call about this movie.
It’s the ‘Barbie’ movie. Greta Gerwig’s directing it, and it’s filming in London for four months or something, so I told them you probably wouldn’t want to to do it because you probably don’t want to go to London,’” he continued. “I was like, ‘What!
Call them back!’ He didn’t like blow it or anything, but he’s like, ‘I managed their expectations that you might not want to do it.’ I was like, ‘How can I not do it?
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