Saoirse Ronan reveals cancelled ‘Barbie’ role

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Barbie.The film adaptation of the iconic toy franchise was released last year to huge acclaim and box office success, becoming the highest-grossing movie of the year.Ronan has previously worked with Barbie director Greta Gerwig, leading her two previous films Little Women and Lady Bird.Speaking to Variety, the actress addressed Timothée Chalamet‘s recent claim that he and Ronan were set for cameos in Barbie that never came to fruition, revealing that she was set to play a Weird Barbie alongside Kate McKinnon.“I don’t know what he was going to be, but I was definitely going to be a Weird Barbie,” she said. “I don’t know how to take that.

I would have been with Kate McKinnon, so that would have been nice. I had a scene but didn’t ever get to do it, and it wasn’t in the movie.“I can’t even remember now, but it was weird.

I think I’d be the strange girl who talked to herself and always had her pet dog with her and always talked to the dog and wouldn’t look at anyone.”Ronan added: “I worked with Jacqueline Durran, the costume designer.

After they’d made it, I was like, who was I going to be anyway? Because I had a scene but didn’t ever get to do it and I wasn’t in the movie… and she was like, ‘Oh, obviously you are going to be a really weird Barbie, Saoirse’.”Chalamet himself spoke last month about his planned role, telling The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: “I don’t know what the cameo would’ve been.