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One of the People Who Thought ‘Barbie’ Was a Terrible Idea for a Movie Was Its Own Cowriter · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan.
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  Speaker 2: Seacrest, Barbie would not have been the massive, subversive hit
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  Speaker 2: and cultural landmark it was at theaters without the brilliant
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  Speaker 2: screenplay delivered by director Greta Gerwig and her husband and
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  Speaker 2: fellow filmmaker No A Bombback. But he just admitted to
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  Speaker 2: an audience at a WGA screening of the film, I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was a terrible idea at first, and Greta
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  Speaker 2: signed me up for it. I didn't see how it
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  Speaker 2: was going to be good at all. Every time she
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  Speaker 2: bring it up, I'd say, you've got to get us
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  Speaker 2: out of this. And then the pandemic happened, and it
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  Speaker 2: became the most fun I think either of us has
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  Speaker 2: ever had writing. And then at a certain point I
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  Speaker 2: realized it's the best thing we've ever written. I know
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  Speaker 2: enough just to follow what Greta says, so even in
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  Speaker 2: my revolting a kind of new she really believes it.
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  Speaker 2: Then there's something there the words a Barbie co writer,
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  Speaker 2: No A Bomback. It's on VOD right now.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.