Dan Levy, the co-creator of the sitcom Schitt’s Creek, was offered a role to play one of the Kens in the upcoming Barbie film. However, he had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts. Levy confirmed this news in a recent interview with People magazine while promoting his new film Good Grief, which is now streaming on Netflix.
Levy tried to make it work out but it was not possible. “Logistically could not make it work despite desperately trying to,” he said. Although he couldn’t take the role, Levy was full of praise for the film and its director and co-writer Greta Gerwig. “I think Greta had such a wonderfully bizarre and magical aesthetic idea of what that movie was,” he says of the Oscar nominee. “I would have loved to play in her world. I think she is one of the great, young auteurs of our time.”
Earlier this week, Margot Robbie revealed that she may “disappear from screens” for a while because “everybody is probably sick” of the sight of her. Robbie said that if she did another movie too soon, people would ask, ‘Her again? We just did a whole summer with her. We’re over it.’ I don’t know what I’ll do next, but I hope it’s a little while away.”
The Barbie film has received the first-ever Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award at the Golden Globes on January 7, a category created to recognize films that both “garnered extensive global audience support and attained cinematic excellence”. Although Barbie only took home one award on the night, it set various box office records and was the highest-grossing film of 2023. The movie also had more Golden Globes nominations than any other title, with nine in total
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