Approach again in 2017, Hathaway was contemplating enjoying Barbie for Sony Footage, with Alethea Jones circling to direct. The Oscar-winner says now, in hindsight, it’s a “fortunate factor” that by no means occurred.

Why? The actress says the staff behind this yr’s Barbie, “hit a bullseye.”

She continued, referencing her 2017 challenge, “Now think about that model, that a lot power, that a lot anticipation, that a lot emotion, however it’s not the fitting model.”

Hathaway supplied her evaluation on Josh Horowitz’s Glad Unhappy Confused podcast.

She was equally effusive in her reward for the girl who producer and eventual precise onscreen Barbie, Margot Robbie.

“Margot is simply elegant, interval. What she is doing as a inventive particular person and a producer is so thrilling and provoking. And the mythic giants they toppled with [Barbie] which have stored sure narratives in place that haven’t allowed alternatives to develop for thus many individuals. They ran straight via it, dancing, glowing!

“Simply as a cinema-goer and simply as a girl in Hollywood since I used to be a child, I’m thrilled by the event,” she added. “If I believed that the model I used to be connected to may have performed that, yeah, I would really feel otherwise about it, however I genuinely suppose their [film] was the very best model. So it’s really very simple to only be thrilled and comfortable [for them]. I’m additionally an individual who loves watching girls kill it. I simply do, I simply like it. And in addition, to take action effectively, so undeniably that they really needed to write new information, come on! … I believe it’s most likely going to make issues higher.”