Way again in 2017, Hathaway was contemplating enjoying Barbie for Sony Pictures, with Alethea Jones circling to direct. The Oscar-winner says now, in hindsight, it’s a “lucky thing” that by no means occurred.
Why? The actress says the crew behind this yr’s Barbie, “hit a bullseye.”
She continued, referencing her 2017 undertaking, “Now imagine that version, that much energy, that much anticipation, that much emotion, but it’s not the right version.”
Hathaway supplied her evaluation on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast.
She was equally effusive in her reward for the girl who producer and eventual precise onscreen Barbie, Margot Robbie.
“Margot is simply elegant, interval. What she is doing as a inventive individual and a producer is so thrilling and provoking. And the mythic giants they toppled with [Barbie] which have saved sure narratives in place that haven’t allowed alternatives to develop for thus many individuals. They ran straight by way of it, dancing, glowing!
“Just as a cinema-goer and just as a woman in Hollywood since I was a kid, I’m thrilled by the development,” she added. “If I believed that the version I was attached to could have done that, yeah, I might feel differently about it, but I genuinely think their [film] was the best possible version. So it’s actually very easy to just be thrilled and happy [for them]. I’m also a person who loves watching women kill it. I just do, I just love it. And also, to do so well, so undeniably that they actually had to write new records, come on! … I think it’s probably going to make things better.”
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