Margot Robbie did a brilliant job playing Barbie in Greta Gerwig’s acclaimed film, but many actresses were attached to this role before she hopped on board. Anne Hathaway was one of them, and she recently reflected on the Barbie movie she was supposed to lead and said it’s a “lucky thing” that it never came to be.
The Oscar-winner was one of the actresses in the running to play Barbie when Sony Pictures was developing a movie back in 2017. Alethea Jones was supposed to direct it, but this plan eventually fell through, and Hathaway moved on to other projects, including her recent film Eileen.
Hathaway reflected on her Barbie movie during a recent appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast and said she has no regrets about not playing this character. She praised the team behind Greta Gerwig’s Barbie for hitting a bullseye with their adaptation, which went on to become the highest-grossing film of 2023.
Hathaway also said that its leading lady Margot Robbie was “just sublime” in the film, and praised her work both in front and behind the camera, as one of the film’s producers.
“Just as a cinema-goer and just as a woman in Hollywood since I was a kid, I’m thrilled by the development. 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,” said Hathaway.
