Amy Schumer walked away from live-action Barbie movie due to creative differences

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Amy Schumer revealed the real reason why she walked way from the live-action Barbie movie nearly three years after she was tapped to write the script and star in the flick.At the time, the 40-year-old comedian said she had to bow out of the project due to 'scheduling conflicts' with her 2018 movie I Feel Pretty, but in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Amy admitted there were too many creative differences for her to proceed with the film.'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 said.

Difficult decision: Amy Schumer revealed the real reason why she walked way from the live-action Barbie movie nearly three years after she was tapped to write the script and star in the flick; seen in DecemberAmy and her writing partner and sister,Kim Caramele, came up with a script about an 'ambitious inventor,' and the studios wanted that invention to be a high heel made out of Jell-O.

Schumer recalled being sent a pair of pricey Manolo Blahnik's to celebrate the partnership, a gift which left a bad taste in her mouth.'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.

At the time, the 40-year-old comedian said she had to bow out of the project due to 'scheduling conflicts' with her 2018 movie I Feel Pretty, but in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Amy admitted there were too many creative differences for her to proceed with the film; seen in 2018 Amy felt her career was 'a little stagnant' by 2018, which led to to her leaving her UTA representatives.'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.