Amy Schumer; Margot Robbie in “Barbie”.Photo:Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty; Jaap Buitendijk/Warner Bros.
Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty; Jaap Buitendijk/Warner Bros.
Amy Schumerhas seen the hitnewBarbiemovie— and she’s a fan!
Schumer wrote on Instagram Monday morning that shesaw bothBarbieandOppenheimer, and made a joke about how she should havehad Emily Blunt’s role in the latter.
“Really enjoyed Barbie and Oppenheimer but I think I should have played Emily Blunts role. Do better Hollywood,” shewrotein the caption.
Amy Schumer.Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Deadline
When Schumer announced she was leavingBarbieback in March 2017, she toldVarietyin a statement, “Sadly, I’m no longer able to commit toBarbiedue to scheduling conflicts. The film has so much promise, and Sony and Mattel have been great partners. I’m bummed, but look forward to seeingBarbieon the big screen.”
Schumer, however, latershed more light on what led to herBarbieexit, tellingThe Hollywood Reporterin March 2022 that creative differences caused her to back out.
“They definitely didn’t want to do it the way I wanted to do it, theonlyway I was interested in doing it,” she said at the time.
Schumer’s version of the movie was originally described as a story about Barbie getting kicked out of Barbie Land for not being perfect enough, landing her in a real-world adventure. It was slated to premiere in summer 2018.
While onWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohenin June, theTrainwreckwriter/actress said she was excited to see Gerwig and Robbie’sBarbie:“Ican’t wait to see the movie. I think it looks awesome.”
Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie.Hanna Lassen/Getty Images
Hanna Lassen/Getty Images
Cohen asked her about the real reason she left the project, and Schumer joked, “They said I was too thin.”
She added, “I think we said it was scheduling conflicts. That’s what we said. But it really was just creative differences. But there’s like a new team behind it and it looks like it’s very feminist and cool, so I will be seeing that movie.”
“Was it just that it didn’t feel feminist and cool when you were involved in it?” asked Cohen. “Yeah, yeah,” agreed Schumer.
Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behindJunoandJennifer’s Body, was hired to write the script for Sony’s scrappedBarbiemovie with Schumer. She reflected on the ill-fated project in a recentinterview withGQ.
“That idea of an anti-Barbie made a lot of sense given the feminist rhetoric of 10 years ago,” Cody, 45, said earlier this month. “I didn’t really have the freedom then to write something that was faithful to the iconography. They wanted a girl-boss feminist twist on Barbie, and I couldn’t figure it out because that’s not what Barbie is.”
“I have made several swings at IP withBarbieandPowerpuff Girls,and I take full responsibility for the failures of those attempts, because I do have a specific voice and POV and I haven’t figured out how to modulate it,” said Cody.
She added, “Ultimately, you’re selling toys. I mean, nobody really wants to delve deeper into the lore and mythos of Hungry Hungry Hippos. That’s not really an artistic exercise.”
“Barbie”.Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
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Robbie, 33, toldVoguein May that she and Gerwig, 39, at one point feltWonder Womanactress Gal Gadot should lead theirBarbiemovie because she “is so impossibly beautiful, but you don’t hate her for being that beautiful, because she’s so genuinely sincere,/ And she’s so enthusiastically kind, that it’s almost dorky. It’s like right before being a dork.”
After attending theBarbieworld premiere earlier this month, Gadot, 38,shared her reaction to the movie.
“Bravo Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig! You’ve created such a delicious, colorful, fun movie that carries such an important message,” she wrote on Instagram. “I had so much fun watching The Barbie movie! Congrats.”
source: people.com
