Timothée Chalamet confirmed he was supposed to make a cameo in this year's biggest blockbuster, but isn't sure how exactly he would have fit into the world of Barbie.
The actor stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon this week to talk about his new movie, Wonka — and to show off some custom Nike shoes he designed as part of the chocolatier film. Fallon redirected the conversation away from Willy Wonka to briefly discuss Greta Gerwig's Barbie and how Chalamet was rumored to make a cameo in the film.
“There was an idea for Saoirse Ronan and I to do a cameo in it,” Chalamet said. “I don't know what the cameo would have been.”
While Chalamet and Ronan, who have both starred alongside one another in Gerwig's previous films, ultimately weren't able to appear in the film, the actor was trying to speculate what his cameo would have been.
“I think it would have been one of the rejected Kens or Barbies, not Alan, but something,” he continued. “Maybe there was a reject French one along the way. I don’t know.”
Chalamet said he was able to see Gerwig and the very pink set of Barbie after he had finished filming Wonka, mentioning how “insane” both film sets were.
Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan both starred in Greta Gerwig's 2019 adaptation of Little Women, along with Lady Bird in 2017. The director said she was “so annoyed” that Chalamet and Ronan weren't able to appear in Barbie since they had worked so closely together in the past.
“I love them so much," Gerwig told CinemaBlend earlier this year. "But it felt like doing something without my children. I mean, I’m not their mom, but I sort of feel like their mom."
Chalamet is currently on a global press tour for Wonka, appearing at premieres worldwide (with or without a shirt at times). Wonka is out now in the theaters.
