Margot Robbie refused to move ‘Barbie’ premiere date when ‘Oppenheimer’ producer asked
06.12.2023 - 17:47
/ nypost.com
Margot Robbie revealed Tuesday that one of the producers for the film “Oppenheimer” once tried to convince her to push the release date of ‘Barbie” back. “One of your producers, Chuck Roven, called me, because we worked together on some other projects. And he was like, ‘I think you guys should move your date,’ ” Robbie, 33, told Cillian Murphy during their chat on Variety’s Actors on Actors.
“And I was like, ‘We’re not moving our date. If you’re scared to be up against us, then you move your date,’ ” Robbie told Murphy. “And he’s like, ‘We’re not moving our date.
I just think it’d be better for you to move.’ ” “And I was like, ‘We’re not moving,’ ” the “Barbie” co-producer said. According to the “Suicide Squad” actress, she believed that the two movies — which were later dubbed “Barbenheimer” due to their simultaneous launches — were the “perfect double billing.” “Clearly the world agreed. Thank God,” Robbie added.
“The fact that people were going and being like, ‘Oh, watch “Oppenheimer” first, then “Barbie.” I was like, ‘See? People like everything.’ People are weird.”Murphy praised the Australian actress’ “good instinct.”“I think it happened because both movies were good,” Murphy, 47, told Robbie. “In fact, that summer, there was a huge diversity of stuff in the cinema, and I think it just connected in a way that you or I or the studios or anybody could never have predicted.”He added: “And they don’t like being told what to do. They will decide, and they will generate the interest themselves.”Robbie noted that perhaps most of the hubbub surrounding the two films was due to directors Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan competing at the box office.“I think they were also really excited by the filmmakers,” the “Wolf of
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