Timothée Chalamet Visited ‘Barbie’ Set and Told Greta Gerwig, ‘I Should’ve Been in This.’ She Responded: ‘I Know! Why Aren’t You?’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Greta Gerwig revealed in an interview with Hollywood First Look during her “Barbie” press tour that Timothée Chalamet visited the film’s set in London and lamented over not being able to star in the film.
Gerwig directed Chalamet in both “Lady Bird” and “Little Women.” The filmmaker previously told CinemaBlend that Chalamet and her muse Saoirse Ronan were courted for cameo appearances in “Barbie” but scheduling conflicts got in the way. “I tried to get them both in it.
They both couldn’t do it,” Gerwig reiterated to Hollywood First Look. “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?’” Gerwig previously said that she had planned for Chalamet and Ronan to appear in “Barbie” in “speciality cameos,” but “both of them couldn’t do it and I was so annoyed.
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