Saoirse Ronan Details Her Cut ‘Barbie’ Cameo

Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet have been going to have cameos in Barbie, and the main points make Us even sadder that it didn’t occur.

“I don’t know what [Timothée] was going to be, but I was definitely going to be a Weird Barbie,” Ronan, 29, instructed Variety in a Saturday, January 20, interview at Sundance Film Festival. “I don’t know how to take that. I mean, I would have been with Kate McKinnon, so that would have been nice. … I had a scene but didn’t ever get to do it, and it wasn’t in the movie.”

She continued, “I can’t even remember now, but it was weird. I think I’d be the strange girl who talked to herself and always had her pet dog with her and always talked to the dog and wouldn’t look at anyone.”

Chalamet, 28, and Ronan each costarred in director Greta Gerwig‘s Oscar-nominated movies Lady Bird and Little Women. She hoped to reunite with the duo for the third time.

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It looks like Barbie has all the things — lady energy, large laughs, extra shades of pink than any of Us knew existed — however director Greta Gerwig needed to lower a number of issues from the large blockbuster. Allan’s ‘Jaws’-Inspired Scene Gerwig filmed a scene that paid tribute to Steven Spielberg‘s traditional movie. “We did this shot […]

“I tried to get them both in it. I really did and they both couldn’t do,” Gerwig, 40, instructed Hollywood First Look in July. “It was, like, a scheduling thing. She was actually producing, so that was great, good on her. But I tried to get them. It makes me it makes me feel like I’m without my — they feel like my children.”

The Wonka star opened up about his missed cameo alternative final month whereas on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

“There was an idea for Saoirse Ronan and I to do a cameo in it,” Chalamet defined. “I don’t know what the cameo would’ve been. I think it would’ve been one of the rejected Kens or Barbies. Not Alan! But something. Maybe there was a reject French one along the way.”

While filming a scene wasn’t potential, he bought to briefly go to Gerwig on the set of Barbie. “When I finished Wonka, they were — the Barbie set had been built,” he shared, noting he went from one fantastical land to a different.

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They definitely weren’t the one stars who couldn’t make it to set. Barbie casting director Allison Jones instructed Vanity Fair final yr that Bowen Yang, Dan Levy and Ben Platt all needed to flip down roles as Kens resulting from logistics. “They were — I’m not kidding — really bummed they couldn’t do it,” Jones mentioned.

Meanwhile, Allan was virtually performed by Jonathan Groff reasonably than Michael Cera. “Dear, dear Jonathan Groff was like, ‘I can’t believe I’m typing this, but I can’t do Allan,’” Jones added.

Luckily, with a forged that included Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera and Will Ferrell, Barbie had no scarcity of stars.