Allison Jones — who cast the hit film along with Lucy Bevan — talked about who else might have joined Barbie in her dream house.
Like the line of dolls the movie is based on, there are multiple Barbies and Kens portrayed by a diverse cast of actors.According to Jones, Covid restrictions at the time meant having to spend three months in London where a great deal of the movie was filmed. And that meant Bowen Yang, Dan Levy, and Ben Platt were out of the running to play Ken.And they weren’t the only ones angling for the role.
“Simu Liu was dying to be a Ken, God bless him,” Jones said of the actor who was eventually cast as one of the Kens.“Dear, dear Jonathan Groff was like, ‘I can’t believe I’m typing this, but I can’t do Allan,’” the casting director told the publication.Multiple aspiring Barbie and Kens sent in audition tapes and according to Bevan, director Greta Gerwig was keen on speaking with the possible actors before even sending them the script to read.
“She really wanted to get to know them as people,” Bevan said. “That was very important to her. On the key Barbie and Ken roles, she got a very good idea of what an actor was like from talking to them.” Margot Robbie snagged the main role of Barbie, though there are multiple other Barbies in the film played by a diverse group of actresses including Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae and Dua Lipa.™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.
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