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"You've got the wrong gal."
Hey, remember when Amy Schumer was supposed to be Barbie in the Barbie movie?
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Sony cast Amy as the titular doll in late 2016, and she was co-writing the script too — then, four months later, she backed out of the project while citing "scheduling conflicts."
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As it turns out, "scheduling conflicts" weren't the real reason why Amy left the flick — and she recently explained the whole sitch to The Hollywood Reporter.
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“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 explained.
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Amy claims that she wanted her Barbie to be an inventor, while the studio wanted her "invention" to be a high-heel made of Jell-O.
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The studio also sent her a pair of Manolo Blahniks after closing the deal — which Amy says was a sign that things were doomed from the start.
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“The idea that that’s just what every woman must want, right there, I should have gone, ‘You’ve got the wrong gal,’” she said.
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The decision to depart the project also caused Amy to shake up her career in general, which she says was "getting a little stagnant."
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“I felt like I was disappointing my team by not being Barbie," she said while discussing her decision to change talent reps. “I loved those guys, but I just didn’t feel support for, like, ‘This is who Amy is and she’s not going to be this other thing.'"
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The Barbie movie is still full steam ahead, though — it's going to be directed by Greta Gerwig, with Margot Robbie playing Barbie, so look out for that.
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