Amy Schumer revealed that “artistic variations” led her to stroll away from a star position as Barbie within the preliminary movie of the identical identify.
Schumer was set to play the long-lasting doll in a challenge that Sony Photos had the rights to again in 2016, Selection reported. She later cited “scheduling conflicts” as her purpose for dropping out of the movie months later.
The comic, in an interview on “Watch What Occurs Reside” with Andy Cohen on Thursday, stated the upcoming movie that now stars Margot Robbie “seems superior” earlier than describing the rationale she left the sooner challenge.
“It actually was simply artistic variations however you recognize, there’s a brand new crew behind it and it seems prefer it’s very feminist and funky so I will probably be seeing the film,” Schumer stated.
“Was it that it didn’t really feel feminist and funky if you had been concerned in it?” Cohen requested.
“Yeah, yeah,” Schumer replied.
The comic beforehand opened up about her determination to depart Sony’s “Barbie” throughout an interview with The Hollywood Reporter final 12 months.
“They positively didn’t need to do it the best way I wished to do it, the one approach I used to be considering doing it,” Schumer stated.
Schumer’s script noticed Barbie as an inventor and the studio requested her invention be a excessive heel crafted from Jell-O. She then acquired a pair of Manolo Blahniks “to have a good time,” in line with The Hollywood Reporter.
“The concept that that’s simply what each girl should need, proper there, I ought to have gone, ‘You’ve acquired the fallacious gal,’” she stated.
Warner Bros. would later tackle the rights to “Barbie” in 2018 whereas Robbie, who additionally serves as a producer on the movie, was confirmed for the title position the following 12 months.
The Greta Gerwig-directed “Barbie” movie seems to hit theaters on July 21.