Michael Cera Recalls Begging Greta Gerwig for 'Barbie' Role: 'I Need to Do It!'

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Michael Cera REALLY wanted to play Allan in Barbie. In an interview with GQ conducted before the SAG-AFTRA strike, the 35-year-old actor revealed that he begged director Greta Gerwig to cast him in the hit movie. Keep reading to find out more… “It was a kind of very last-minute casting,” Michael recalled. “My manager got a call checking on my availability for it, and he called me and he said, ‘I got a call about this movie.

It’s the Barbie movie. Greta Gerwig’s directing it, and it’s filming in London for four months or something, so I told them you probably wouldn’t want to to do it because you probably don’t want to go to London,’” Michael continued. “I was like, ‘What!

Call them back!’ He didn’t like blow it or anything, but he’s like, ‘I managed their expectations that you might not want to do it,’” Michael added. “I was like, ‘How can I not do it?

I need to do it!’” Michael was then able to get in contact with Greta and told her how much he wanted to wanted to play Allan. “I somehow got Greta’s email address, I think through a common friend of ours, and I emailed her like, ‘Can I be in it?