‘Barbie’: Amy Schumer Says She Dropped Out An Earlier Version Of Upcoming Film Because It Wasn’t “Very Feminist And Cool”

With Gerta Gerwig at the helm, a massive ensemble cast, and a soundtrack complete with new tracks from Dua Lipa and Ryan Gosling (it’s true), “Barbie” will surely be one of the biggest films this summer. And it’s a long time coming: the film was first announced in 2009, the finally hit development five years later, going through multiple iterations before Gerwig and Noah Baumbach penned their screenplay. Someone once attached to “Barbie” who’s not in the upcoming film? Comedian Amy Schumer, who, EW reports, recently divulged why she left the project.

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Schumer talked about “Barbie” on yesterday’s episode of Bravo‘s “Watch What Happens Live” with Andy Cohen. “They said I was too thin,” joked the comedian-actress about why she left an earlier version of the film. “I can’t wait to see the movie. I think it looks awesome.” But then Schumer clarified why she ditched “Barbie” before its current form. “I think we said it was scheduling conflicts,” she said. “That’s what we said. But it really was just like, creative differences. But there’s a new team behind it and it looks like it’s very feminist and cool, so I will be seeing this movie.”

Cohen then asked if the version of “Barbie” Schumer saw “didn’t feel feminist and cool,” she responded curtly: “Yeah.” “They definitely didn’t want to do it the way I wanted to do it, the only way I was interested in doing it,” she continued. Schumer went on to say her character would have been an “inventor,” but the studio wanted her invention to a show made out of Jell-O. “The idea that that’s just what every woman must want, right there, I should have gone, ‘You’ve got the wrong gal,'” Schumer laughed.  

Is there a place for Jell-O shoes in Gerwig’s “Barbie”? Given the movie’s cast, it’s not likely.  Margot Robbie stars in Gerwig’s latest as a Barbie who realizes shes less than perfect for Barbie world, so she heads to the real world instead, with Gosling’s Ken in tow, to discover who she really is. Other cast include Issa Rae, Simu Liu, Will Ferrell, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Dua Lipa, John Cena, Emma Mackey, and many others. “Barbie” hits theaters on July 21, battling Christopher Nolan‘s “Oppenheimer” at the box office during its opening weekend.

As for Schumer? She stars next in “Trolls Band Together” and “Unfrosted: The Pop-Tart Story,” both in post-production now.