'Barbie' Movie Cameos That Were Canceled: Ben Affleck, Timothée Chalamet And More
The actors and actresses who were supposed to make cameo appearances in "Barbie" have been revealed.
One of them was Ben Affleck. When "Barbie" actor Michael Cera appeared on the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast on Feb. 15, he revealed that while Affleck wanted to do a cameo in the movie, he dropped out last minute because of prior commitments for his sports drama "Air."
Instead of Cera, the "Gone Girl" actor was supposed to be in the fight scene with the construction Kens in the film, Cera disclosed.
Ben Affleck attends the Los Angeles premiere of Amazon Studio's "The Tender Bar" at TCL Chinese Theatre on December 12, 2021 in Hollywood, California.
Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan from director Greta Gerwig's other films, "Little Woman" and "Ladybird," were also set to do a "specialty cameo" in "Barbie." However, their busy schedules got in the way.
"Well, it was always going to have to be like a sort of smaller thing because she was actually producing at the time, which I am so proud of her for. And, of course, it's brilliant. But it was going to be a specialty cameo," Gerwig said of Ronan's supposed cameo in an interview with CinemaBlend.
"I was also going to do a specialty cameo with Timmy, and both of them couldn't do it, and I was so annoyed. But I love them so much. But it felt like doing something without my children," she continued.
Actors Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet attend The 23rd Annual Critics' Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on January 11, 2018 in Santa Monica, California.
Another canceled cameo was Olivia Colman's. In an interview with Variety, Helen Mirren, who took on the role of "Barbie's" Narrator, revealed that her fellow English actress was set to star opposite her as the movie's second narrator in a scene she shot as herself.
"It was a very funny scene with Olivia Colman sort of playing drunk and us clashing about who is the real grand dame of British actresses," she recalled about the cut "Barbie" scene, laughing.
She continued, "She comes in and tries to take over the role of the Narrator, and I had to fight her off."
British actress Olivia Colman arrives for the 92nd Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California on February 9, 2020.
Per Screen Rant, the scene with Colman was only one of three of Mirren's funniest moments cut out from the "Barbie" movie. In a deleted post-credits scene, Mirren stepped in to lend a hand to the discontinued pregnant Barbie. In another, she dropped the F-bomb in a hilarious response to Marie Curie.
Aside from Affleck, Chalamet, Ronan and Colman, Ben Platt, Bowen Yang and Dan Levy were lined up for cameos, but their scheduling conflicts didn't allow them to film scenes for the film. The three were supposed to join the film's many Kens.
Meanwhile, "Fellow Travelers" actor Matt Bomer auditioned remotely for "Barbie" and recorded a video playing a bunch of different Kens. But, he ultimately walked away from the opportunity so he wouldn't spend extensive time away from his family, he told Vanity Fair.
