Anne Hathaway thinks it's 'a lucky thing' her “Barbie” movie never got made

"I genuinely think their film was the best possible version."

The fabled Barbie movie that wasn't is now a thing of the not-so-distant past — and Anne Hathaway probably thinks it's better that way.

In a new interview with the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Hathaway talks about her brief flirtation with the Mattel icon and why she thinks it's a "lucky thing" her movie never got made.

Sony had originally planned a Barbie movie of its own, with Oscar-winning Juno scribe Diablo Cody among the team of writers behind it, and Amy Schumer pegged for the title role. When Schumer jumped ship in 2017 over "scheduling conflicts" (which she later revealed were "creative differences"), Hathaway stepped into the Barbie heels.

Hathaway's film was supposed to come out in July 2018, with Australian director Alethea Jones in talks to direct. According to Variety, the film was described as giving Splash/Enchanted/Big vibes and followed Barbie as she got kicked out of Barbie Land for not being perfect enough leading to a real-world adventure.

But none of it worked out and Sony lost the rights to Barbie, then Margot Robbie swept in, took it to Warner Bros., brought on Greta Gerwig, and the rest is billion-dollar herstory.

“What’s so exciting about what Greta and Margot and that phenomenal team [did] is they hit a bullseye,” Hathaway said. “The bullseye caused the entire world to reach this level of ecstasy. Now imagine that version…that much energy, that much anticipation, that much emotion…but it’s not the right version. I actually think of it as a lucky thing [it didn’t get made].”

Calling Robbie "sublime," Hathaway went on to praise the actress and producer, adding how "thrilled" she is to see the stereotypical narratives and barriers to "so many people" the film helped topple.

"If I believed that the version I was attached to could have done that, I might feel differently about it, but I genuinely think their film was the best possible version," the Eileen star continued. "It’s easy just to be thrilled and happy [for them]. I love watching women kill it. To do so well, so undeniably that they actually had to write new records…come on! I think it will probably make things better.”

Hathaway also reminisced about missing out on playing Black Cat in Sam Raimi's abandoned Spider-Man 4, noting that it might have helped her land her role in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.

“Perhaps [Christopher Nolan] would’ve said, ‘No, she’s occupied in another universe,'" Hathaway offers. Or he might've said, "She's already played one sexy, cat-obsessed burglar/anti-heroine with a penchant for skintight black suits."

Because Selina Kyle and Felicia Hardy are basically the same person just with different taste in fur trim. Which, if the math it mathing, makes Michelle Pfeiffer the Greta Gerwig's Barbie of all cinematic cat-women.

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