Greta Gerwig on Timothee Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan Passing Up Cameos in ‘Barbie’: “It Felt Like Doing Something Without My Children”

If you consider it, the director of a movie is basically a parental determine of the manufacturing. In Greta Gerwig‘s case, she feels a sure motherly intuition in relation to working with Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan.

The 2 stars are Gerwig-production veterans, having starred alongside one another in each Woman Chicken in 2017 and Little Girls two years later in 2019.

In an interview with Cinema Mix, Gerwig gushed about Ronan and Chalamet, each of whom she had reached out to for “specialty cameos” in her upcoming star-studded Barbie film.

“Effectively, it was all the time going to need to be a form of smaller factor as a result of [Ronan] was really producing on the time, which I’m so happy with her for,” Gerwig shared. “And naturally, it’s sensible. However it was going to be a specialty cameo.”

She continued, “I used to be additionally going to do a specialty cameo with Timmy (Chalamet), and each of them couldn’t do it and I used to be so aggravated. However I like them a lot.”

The Oscar-nominated director defined that filming her new film with out the 2 of them “felt like doing one thing with out [her] youngsters.”

“I imply, I’m not their mother, however I form of really feel like their mother,” Gerwig quipped.

Ronan, who was allegedly unable to ‘doll up’ for the brand new movie on account of a scheduling battle pertaining to her filming The Outrun, instructed Individuals she was “gutted [she] couldn’t do it.”

“I used to be purported to do a cameo as a result of I dwell in London and so they had been [filming] there,” she continued. “There was an entire character I used to be going to play — one other Barbie.”

Ronan joked that she would even accept strolling via the background of some “pick-up pictures,” and having texted her earlier Mary Queen of Scots co-star and Barbie star Margot Robbie and Gerwig about doing so.

Chalamet has beforehand expressed his love for Gerwig and Ronan, each of whom he cited two members of the Little Girls forged and crew that he would name if in want of heartbreak recommendation, per ELLE UK. As for his latest work, he has an enormous array of upcoming initiatives. A notable one is the titular function within the musical Wonka that units to delve into the origin story of the grasp chocolatier.