‘Barbie’ fans recall Amy Schumer once cast as lead: ‘Dodged a bullet’
trainwreck.Shortly after this week’s premiere of the highly anticipated trailer for the live-action “Barbie” movie — featuring Margot Robbie, 32, as the iconic doll herself and Ryan Gosling, 42, as “just Ken” — fans on Twitter recalled the film’s early days, when Amy Schumer was announced as co-writer and lead doll.The dream didn’t last long.Three months later, in March 2017, the 41-year-old comedian revealed she had to leave the Sony Pictures project due to “scheduling conflicts” — which she later admitted wasn’t the full reason for her departure. “They definitely didn’t want to do it the way I wanted to do it, the only way I was interested in doing it,” Schumer claimed to The Hollywood Reporter about Sony in March 2022.