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Lena Dunham Has Announced She’s Leaving the ‘Polly Pocket’ Movie · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: After the rampant success of Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig,
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Speaker 2: there has been a wave of anticipation for a similar
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Speaker 2: project from another visionary female director, the Polly Pocket film adaptation,
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Speaker 2: which was to be written and directed by Girls creator
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Speaker 2: Lena Dunham. And Lena just revealed to The New york
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Speaker 2: Er she stepped away from the project, saying, I wrote
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Speaker 2: a Polypocket script and then I was working on it
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Speaker 2: for three years. Nora Ephron, who was such a mentor
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Speaker 2: to me, always said, go be weird, don't calto to anyone.
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Speaker 2: Greta Gerwig pulled off an incredible feet with Barbie to
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Speaker 2: make it literally candy to so many different kinds of
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Speaker 2: people and still perfectly and divinely Greta. And unless I
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Speaker 2: can do it that way, I'm not going to do it.
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Speaker 2: I don't think I have that in me. The next
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Speaker 2: movie I make needs to feel like a movie that
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Speaker 2: I absolutely have to make. Lena Dunham there, she's passed
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Speaker 2: on the project. Lily Collins is still attached to play
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Speaker 2: Polly Pocket, so new director should be on board soon.
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