Michael Cera plays the clumsy, one-of-a-kind Alan in Greta Gerwig’s hit Barbie. But without a last-minute Zoom call to the director, he might not be part of the film.
“It was kind of a last minute casting“, he said Michael Cera In a video interview with GQ conducted before the actors’ strike (via Variety/Yahoo). “My manager called to check on my availability and called me back and said, “I got a call for this movie. This is a barbie movie. It’s directed by Greta Gerwig and it’s been filming in London for about four months, so I said you probably didn’t want to do it because you probably didn’t want to go to London.“
However, the actor was very interested: “what did i say Call them!’ how can i not I have to do this!“. So he took matters into his own hands.
I got Greta’s email address, I think through a mutual friend of ours, and I sent her an email like, “Can I be in the movie? can i play this role And he said, ‘Let’s zoom in now. Here’s the Zoom link, I’ll be there for the next hour. ” So he was just on Zoom and said, “Click the link when you’re ready.” Then we talked about it and everything happened very quickly from there.
In Barbie, Michael Cera Kenny plays the shy side. While there are countless iterations of Kenny, there is only one Alan.
“Alan is a sad figure. He’s just a man who doesn’t really belong in the world“- explained the actor. Recall that the character is based on a real Mattel doll produced between 1931 and 2014, which, thanks to the success of the film, is now sold at cost price.
WHY DID MATTEL REMOVE ALLAN FROM SALE?
According to Michael Cerahe”It just didn’t sell. The world just didn’t need Kenny’s friend… Barbie is fine, we can have many more Barbies here and her friends. But we have Ken and we don’t need to go in that direction anymore. So Alan fell through the cracks.“
Barbie It recently surpassed Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight as the highest-grossing domestic film in Warner Bros. history, grossing over $537 million in the United States and Canada. The film also grossed more than $1.2 billion worldwide and remained on the top spot for four consecutive weeks.
Barbie is still available at your nearest cinema.
Discover Michael Cera’s VO interview below:
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