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Amy Schumer is sharing however she really feels astir the Barbie movie.
While the comedian is nary longer acceptable to prima successful the film, she precocious revealed whether she plans connected seeing Margot Robbie arsenic the titular doll erstwhile the movie hits theaters this summer.
"I can't hold to spot the movie," Schumer said during a circular of "Plead the Fifth" connected the June 8 occurrence of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. "I deliberation it looks awesome."
She besides further explained wherefore she dropped retired of the task backmost successful 2017.
"I deliberation we said it was scheduling conflict, that's what we said," the I Feel Pretty actress recalled of her archetypal answer. "But yeah, it truly was just, like, originative differences. But you cognize what? There's similar a caller squad down it, and it looks similar it's precise feminist and cool. So, I volition beryllium seeing that movie."
When host Andy Cohen asked if the movie "didn't consciousness feminist and chill erstwhile you were progressive successful it," Schumer simply replied, "Yeah."
Back successful 2016, it was revealed that the Inside Amy Schumer star would play Barbie successful the live-action movie. But months later, she confirmed that she was nary longer portion of the film, citing "scheduling conflicts."
"The movie has truthful overmuch promise, and Sony and Mattel person been large partners," Schumer added successful her connection astatine the time. "I'm bummed, but look guardant to seeing Barbie connected the large screen."
Looking back at the departure successful an interrogation past year, Schumer shared much of what led her to portion ways with the archetypal film.
"They decidedly didn't privation to bash it the mode I wanted to bash it," she told The Hollywood Reporter in March 2022, "the only way I was funny successful doing it."
According to the outlet, Schumer and her sister Kim Caramele had worked connected the publication and written Barbie arsenic an inventor. However, the work reported that the workplace astatine the clip wanted her invention to beryllium a precocious bottommost made of Jell-O and talented Schumer a brace of Manolo Blahniks to observe her role. As she enactment it, "The thought that that's conscionable what each pistillate indispensable want, close there, I should person gone, 'You've got the incorrect gal.'"
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In 2019, and Mattel and Warner Bros. Pictures Group announced that Robbie would instrumentality connected the relation of Barbie and co-produce the film. It was aboriginal revealed that the movie would be directed by Greta Gerwig, who besides wrote the screenplay on with Noah Baumbach.
Barbie—which besides has Ryan Gosling, Simu Liu, Will Ferrell, and Issa Rae in its star-studded cast—hits theaters July 21.
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