Noah Baumbach might have written Barbie with the movie’s director (and his life accomplice) Greta Gerwig, however he apparently wasn’t in attendance Sunday on the premiere in Los Angeles.
While Greta posed alongside stars of the movie, Noah was notably absent.
Turns out, he had motive to overlook the key occasion. Noah is a director and author behind such movies as White Noise, Marriage Story, and The Meyerowitz Stories. He’s even been nominated twice for Best Original Screenplay on the Oscars: in 2006 for The Squid and the Whale and in 2020 for Marriage Story.
According to Deadline, Greta acknowledged his absence on the premiere forward of the movie’s screening.
“My cowriter and co-creator, my partner in love and art, Noah Baumbach is not here. He is passionately supporting the fight of the Writers Guild of America,” Greta stated, per Deadline. “From the first line to the last cut, this movie is his as much as anyone’s. He is a Barbie girl. Nothing in Barbie happened without him, and nothing in Hollywood happens without writers.”
Noah just isn’t the primary celeb to skip a public occasion in help of the WGA strike. In May, Drew Barrymore dropped out of internet hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards to face in solidarity.
Other stars have taken alternate approaches to standing with the strike, comparable to picketing like Rob Lowe.
Ariana DeBose acknowledged the strike whereas internet hosting the Tony Awards final month, which aired and not using a script, since WGA writers sometimes script the present. “For every single person that had a hand in finding that compromise, I say a full-throated thank you!” she stated of the WGA and Tonys permitting the awards present to proceed amid the strike.
Dermot Mulroney even not too long ago walked off his interview on The View in help of the strike.
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