Timothée Chalamet told Barbie director Greta Gerwig, ‘I should have been in this’ after visiting the set.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, it’s likely that you’ve spotted the Barbie-mania that has swept the globe this summer following the release of Gerwig’s flick.
The movie, which stars Margot Robbie as the titular doll alongside Ryan Gosling as Ken, has been a stormer at the Box Office and earned Gerwig a place in the history books as Barbie became the highest grossing movie directed by a woman.
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And it seems that Gerwig’s frequent collaborator Chalamet was impressed, too - so much so that on a visit to the set he expressed his disappointment at not being able to be a part due to scheduling conflicts.
Gerwig revealed that she had wanted both Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan, whom she previously worked with on Lady Bird and Little Women, to make cameos in Barbie but that scheduling constraints didn’t allow it.
In an interview with CinemaBlend last month, Gerwig said: “Well, it was always going to have to be a sort of smaller thing because [Saoirse] was actually producing at the time, which I am so proud of her for.
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"And of course, it’s brilliant. But it was going to be a specialty cameo.
“I was also going to do a specialty cameo with Timmy, and both of them couldn’t do it and I was so annoyed. But I love them so much.
“But it felt like doing something without my children. I mean, I’m not their mom, but I sort of feel like their mom.”
And in a more recent interview with Hollywood First Look, Gerwig let slip that Chalamet was disappointed that he didn’t make an appearance in the movie.
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She explained: “I tried to get them both in it. They both couldn’t do it. Although Timothée did come by the set and then said, ‘I should have been in this,’ And I was like, ‘I know! Why aren’t you in this?’”
For those interested, Chalamet had been keeping himself busy with his role of Willy Wonka in Wonka as well as filming Dune: Part Two, while Ronan had been producing her first film The Outrun.
It’s fair to say that Gerwig wasn’t exactly starved of actors willing to make a cameo in Barbie, with sneaky appearances from John Cen, Rob Brydon, Dua Lipa and Chris Taylor from 2019’s Love Island.
Topics: Barbie, TV and Film
Claire Reid