It’s finally here: Barbie movie release this week!
We have been waiting months and months to see the Barbie movie in theaters and it’s finally happening on Friday. The film, starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and more (including 11 stars playing Barbie and 5 playing Ken), has so much buzz that you might be shocked by the names that turned down the film.
Saoirse Ronan
Saoirse Ronan revealed in 2022 that she had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict.
“I was supposed to do a cameo because I live in London and they were filming there,” Saoirse told People. However, she had a scheduling conflict with her movie The Outrun. “There was a whole character I was going to play — another Barbie. I was gutted I couldn’t do it.”
Timothée Chalamet
Greta Gerwig, the director of Barbie, explained in an interview that she wanted both Saoirse and Timothée Chalamet to do cameos.
Saoirse and Greta worked together on “Lady Bird” in 2017 and “Little Women” in 2019. Timothee also starred in “Little Women.”
Greta told CinemaBlend about both Saoirse and Timothee’s potential cameos, “Well, it was always going to have to be like a sort of smaller thing because she was actually producing at the time, which I am so proud of her for. And of course, it’s brilliant. But it was going to be a specialty cameo. I was also going to do a specialty cameo with Timmy. Both of them couldn’t do it and I was so annoyed. But I love them so much. But it felt like doing something without my children. I mean, I’m not their mom, but I sort of feel like their mom.”
Gal Gadot
Margot Robbie, Barbie’s star, also wanted Gal Gadot to star in the film, but she apparently “wasn’t available.”
“Gal Gadot is Barbie energy. Because Gal Gadot is so impossibly beautiful, but you don’t hate her for being that beautiful, because she’s so genuinely sincere, and she’s so enthusiastically kind, that it’s almost dorky. It’s like right before being a dork,” she told Vogue.
Lucas Macfarlane
Bros star, Luke Macfarlane, auditioned for a small role in the Barbie movie… and got it. Unfortunately, he turned it down to film the comedy series Platonic for Apple TV+.
He shared with THR: “It was interesting because I auditioned for a small role in Barbie and I got it. And then I got an email from [Bros director Nick Stoller] that said, ‘I think you’d be really great in this role.’ I was like, ‘Great. I have this offer for Barbie, so you have to let me know. We tried to make it work, and I was like, ‘You know what? I really, really wanted to work on this show. Careers are fun, you never really know. When I read about the character on the page, I thought, ‘This is someone I understand.'”
On turning down Barbie, he shared: “It was one of those brutal things. Yeah, the timing couldn’t work for both. I’m not trying to sound boastful. It was a small, small part, but I’ve never been part of something beautiful, big, and cool like that. It would have been great to do both things.”
