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Greta Gerwig Agreed to Direct ‘Barbie’ for a Very Surprising Reason · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Upcoming Barbie movie starring
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Speaker 1: Margot Robing Ryan Reynolds might be the most anticipated film
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Speaker 1: personally because of the woman in charge. It's being directed
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Speaker 1: by the talented Credit Gerwig, who's much better known as
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Speaker 1: an edgy indie filmmaker than it kind of created that
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Speaker 1: would adapt an iconic grand name Choi into a mainstream
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Speaker 1: studio project. But that's why Greta found it so irresistible
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Speaker 1: and scary. She tells the At Your Service podcast. It
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Speaker 1: was an opportunity that was exciting because it was terrifying.
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Speaker 1: I think that was a big part of it, thinking
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Speaker 1: oh no, Barbie. It felt like Vertigo starting to write it,
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Speaker 1: worrying where do you even begin and what's the story?
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Speaker 1: But the feeling I had was knowing that it would
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Speaker 1: be really interesting terror Usually that's where the best stuff lies.
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Speaker 1: Where you think I'm terrified of that this could be
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Speaker 1: a career ender, then you know I should probably do it.
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Speaker 1: Barbie's in theaters, that's direct from Hollywood.