Anne Hathaway Says We're Lucky Her Barbie Movie Didn't Get Made _ E! News

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00:00 Now imagine that version, that much energy, that much anticipation, that much emotion,

00:06 but it's not the right version.

00:08 Did you know Anne Hathaway almost had her own Barbie movie?

00:14 On December 11th, the Devil Wears Prada alum appears on the Happy Sad Confused podcast

00:20 with Josh Horowitz and opens up about almost having her own Barbie movie and how it's

00:26 "a lucky thing" hers didn't get made.

00:29 As fans recall, in 2016, Amy Schumer was cast as Barbie for a live-action film by Mattel

00:36 and Sony Pictures slated for release in July 2018.

00:40 However, in July of 2017, the actress announced she was parting ways due to "scheduling conflicts"

00:48 and Anne Hathaway stepped up for the role.

00:51 But Sony lost the rights to Barbie, then Margot swept in, recruited Greta Gerwig, and the

00:57 rest is history.

00:59 Barbie came and went this year and was a phenomenon and there was a moment where you were attached

01:02 to a different iteration, as I understand it, to Barbie.

01:05 Yeah, I think the thing you have to imagine is, and the thing that's so exciting about

01:10 what Margot and Greta and Ryan and that entire, and America and that entire phenomenon, they

01:17 hit a bullseye.

01:20 And the bullseye caused the entire world to reach this level of ecstasy.

01:30 Now imagine that version, that much energy, that much anticipation, that much emotion,

01:37 but it's not the right version.

01:40 So I actually think of it as a lucky thing.

01:43 Anne then goes on to mention her respect for Margot as a creative and producer and the

01:48 huge impact the film had on people.

01:50 I think that Margot is just sublime, period, full stop.

01:56 And I think that what she is doing as a creative person and as a producer is so exciting and

02:02 inspiring.

02:04 And what, and the, the mythic giants that they toppled with that film that have kept

02:12 certain narratives in place that have not allowed opportunities to develop for so many

02:17 people.

02:18 They just, they ran straight through them dancing, sparkling.

02:23 And I'm not just saying this just as a cinema goer, just as a woman in Hollywood since I

02:29 was a kid, I'm thrilled.

02:32 I'm thrilled by the development.

02:34 And if I believed that the version that I was attached to could have done that, yeah,

02:39 I might feel differently about it, but I genuinely think theirs was the best possible version.

02:44 And so it's actually very easy to just be thrilled and happy and like just watching

02:50 because I'm also a person who I love watching women kill it.

02:53 I just do.

02:54 I just love it.

02:55 I just love it.

02:56 It's, and also to, to do so well, so undeniably that they actually had to like write new records,

03:04 right?

03:05 That's the word undeniable.

03:06 No one could be like, I don't get it.

03:07 No, like this was, this was so undeniable.

03:11 So completely undeniable and I think it's probably going to make things better.

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