Yahoo News Michael Cera Says Ben Affleck Was Supposed to Make a Cameo During ‘Barbie’ Fight Scene
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie had quite a star-studded cast, but Michael Cera has revealed another A-lister was also supposed to make a cameo in the movie.
The actor, who plays the loveable Allan in the movie, shared in a Q&A with Josh Horowitz on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that Ben Affleck was initially going to make an appearance during his character’s fight sequence with the construction Kens.
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“I wasn’t even supposed to fight in the movie,” Cera said. “Am I allowed to say what was supposed to be? It was supposed to be Ben Affleck. Am I allowed to say that?”
However, the Life & Beth actor said that Affleck had to back out of the film due to his commitment to another project. “I think Ben wanted to do it, but he was directing his movie, but they didn’t find that out until the 11th hour,” Cera added, which meant it was Allan’s time to shine.
“They’re like, ‘OK, Ben is out. Something has to happen here, so you’re gonna fight them,'” Cera recalled, noting stunt training was quite the ordeal. “I had to jump in with the stunt team. I had just gotten over COVID, and they had me training, and I almost died just doing a warm-up. I had to lie down in the trailer, and they sent a nurse to see me, and I was sent home. So then we had a second rehearsal, and I learned it.”
The Scott Pilgrim Takes Off actor added of the specific fight scene, which sees him take out several construction Kens in Barbie Land, “That was never part of Allan’s journey. In the rehearsal, we did the thing where I murdered the guy with the shovel, and it was like a joke. And then we were like, ‘Greta is not going to let me murder someone in the movie,’ and it’s in the movie.”
Earlier this week, Cera told Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show that he would be down for a Barbie spinoff focused on his character Allan.
“I think it would be kind of a weird movie, but I’m there,” he said at the time. “He’s kind of like an inactive character. He kind of just stands [there]. For me, the biggest inspiration for the character was Hans Moleman, that character in The Simpsons. He just stands there all the time. For me, that’s like the core of the character.”
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