It should not be simple seeing one other actress have smashing success in a job that was initially yours—except, after all, you are a category act like Anne Hathaway. Whereas showing on Josh Horowitz‘s Blissful Unhappy Confused podcast, Hathaway mentioned that it is “a fortunate factor” her Barbie film by no means noticed the sunshine of day, praising Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie‘s Barbie movie as “the very best model” of the story.
Over the course of Barbie‘s decade in improvement hell, Hathaway was connected to star within the movie because the titular doll in 2017, changing preliminary star Amy Schumer. Hathaway’s Ocean’s 8 screenwriter, Olivia Filch, was connected to jot down the movie, and Enjoyable Mother Dinner director Aletha Jones was set to direct the movie for Sony. However Hathaway’s Barbie dream home by no means got here to be: in 2018, Sony’s possibility on the undertaking expired, and Mattel regained management of the rights. The movie’s launch date was pushed from summer time of 2018 to summer time of 2020, and subsequently fell aside.
In response to Hathaway, this was for the perfect. “Now think about that model, that a lot vitality, that a lot anticipation, that a lot emotion, nevertheless it’s not the best model,” she mentioned of her ill-fated Barbie movie. The Eileen star went on to extol the virtues of Warner Bros. Barbie film and Robbie’s twin roles as star and government producer by way of her manufacturing firm, LuckyChap. “Margot is simply chic, interval,” mentioned Hathaway. “What she is doing as a inventive particular person and a producer is so thrilling and provoking. And the mythic giants they toppled with [Barbie] which have stored sure narratives in place, that haven’t allowed alternatives to develop for therefore many individuals. They ran straight via it, dancing, glowing!”
Robbie’s Barbie movie, as you could keep in mind, was a business and important success, grossing well-over a billion {dollars} and receiving 9 Golden Globe nominations, together with greatest actress for Robbie, greatest supporting actor for Ryan Gosling, greatest image, and three particular person greatest unique music nominations.
“Simply as a cinema-goer and simply as a girl in Hollywood since I used to be a child, I’m thrilled by the event,” added Hathaway. “If I believed that the model I used to be connected to might have achieved that, yeah, I’d really feel otherwise about it. However I genuinely assume their [film] was the very best model. So it’s really very simple to simply be thrilled and completely satisfied [for them]. I’m additionally an individual who loves watching girls kill it. I simply do, I simply like it. And in addition, to take action nicely, so undeniably that they really needed to write new data, come on! … I believe it’s most likely going to make issues higher.” So, whereas every little thing labored out ultimately, cinephiles are allowed to be only a little upset that the world robbed us of one other efficiency the place Hathaway wears a blonde wig, which is a rattling disgrace.
