Seven years earlier than Greta Gerwig‘s model of Barbie premiered, a film based mostly on the favored doll was already within the works at Sony, with the comic connected to the venture. And whereas in 2017, she introduced she would not have the ability to star within the movie as a consequence of scheduling conflicts, earlier this 12 months, she revealed the actual purpose behind her exit.
“I think we said it was scheduling conflicts,” she mentioned throughout a June episode of Watch What Happens Live. “That’s what we said. But it really was just like, creative differences. But there’s a new team behind it and it looks like it’s very feminist and cool, so I will be seeing this movie.”
The Trainwreck star’s sentiment echoes what she beforehand shared in regards to the course she realized the venture was entering into.
“They definitely didn’t want to do it the way I wanted to do it, the only way I was interested in doing it,” she advised The Hollywood Reporter in March 2022. Noting that she wished Barbie to be an “inventor,” she mentioned the studio had the concept a creation of hers can be heels made from Jell-O and later despatched her a pair of Manolo Blahniks.
“The idea that that’s just what every woman must want, right there,” she mentioned, “I should have gone, ‘You’ve got the wrong gal.'”
