Seven years earlier than Greta Gerwig‘s model of Barbie premiered, a film based mostly on the common doll was already in the works at Sony, with the comic hooked up to the mission. And whereas in 2017, she introduced she would not be capable to star in the movie as a result of scheduling conflicts, earlier this yr, she revealed the actual cause behind her exit.

“I feel we stated it was scheduling conflicts,” she stated throughout a June episode of Watch What Occurs Dwell. “That is what we stated. But it surely actually was identical to, artistic variations. However there is a new group behind it and it appears to be like prefer it’s very feminist and funky, so I will likely be seeing this film.”

The Trainwreck star’s sentiment echoes what she beforehand shared about the course she realized the mission was going in.

“They positively did not wish to do it the means I needed to do it, the solely means I used to be in doing it,” she advised The Hollywood Reporter in March 2022. Noting that she needed Barbie to be an “inventor,” she stated the studio had the concept {that a} creation of hers can be heels made from Jell-O and later despatched her a pair of Manolo Blahniks.

“The concept that is simply what each lady should need, proper there,” she stated, “I ought to have gone, ‘You’ve got received the incorrect gal.'”