Anne Hathaway has shared her assist for Margot Robbie‘s and Greta Gerwig‘s Barbie film.

Earlier than Robbie’s and Gerwig’s tackle Barbie, Hathaway was in 2017 hooked up to star in a Barbie film with Australian filmmaker Alethea Jones hooked up to direct. Comic Amy Schumer was first hooked up to star within the movie however dropped out over “scheduling conflicts”.

Nonetheless, nothing would grow to be of Jones’ and Hathaway’s challenge, resulting in Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie teaming up for this yr’s Barbie.

Chatting with Selection, Hathaway mentioned of Robbie’s movie: “What’s so thrilling about what Greta and Margot and that phenomenal staff [did] is that they hit a bullseye. The bullseye brought on the complete world to achieve this stage of ecstasy. Now think about that model… that a lot vitality, that a lot anticipation, that a lot emotion… however it’s not the precise model. I really consider it as a fortunate factor [it didn’t get made].”

Hathaway went on to reward Margot Robbie, saying: “Margot is classy. What she is doing as a inventive particular person and a producer is so thrilling and provoking. 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 by it! Simply as a cinemagoer and as a girl in Hollywood since I used to be a child, I’m thrilled by the event.”

“If I believed that the model I used to be hooked up to might have carried out that, I’d really feel in another way about it, however I genuinely suppose their movie was the very best model. It’s straightforward simply to be thrilled and completely happy for them. I like watching girls kill it. To take action effectively, so undeniably that they really needed to write new information… come on! I feel it’s going to most likely make issues higher.”

Barbie scored a four-star overview from NME‘s Alex Flood upon its launch earlier this yr. Flood wrote: “The script comprises sudden subtlety, notably through the tender moments which pack an emotional punch. Presumably, a part of Mattel’s motive for bringing Barbie to the large display was altering her outdated picture of inflexible magnificence beliefs and unrealistic physique conformism. Gerwig is intelligent sufficient to ship these with self-awareness and a few sarcastic jokes (Mirren thanking Barbie for ending misogyny is a spotlight), that means the stability between actuality and business isn’t misplaced.”

Barbie was additionally lately named NME‘s seventh finest film of the yr. Paul Bradshaw wrote: “A fast vault over the billion-dollar box-office mark noticed Gerwig break information for a feminine director. No one might cease singing ‘I’m Simply Ken’… Wherever you had been in 2023, and no matter you had been doing, we had been all simply dwelling in a Barbie world.”