The 'Barbie' Movie Apparently Almost Featured Luke Macfarlane — Here's Why He Said He Turned It Down

It's too bad — Barbie is one of the most-anticipated movies of the year.

Amy Sussman / Getty Imagesand got it," Luke said."And then I got an email from Nick [Stoller, the director of] that was like, 'I think you’d be really great in this part.' I was like, 'Great. I have this offer forLuke said:"We tried to make it work, and I was like, 'You know what? I really, really wanted to work on this show." However, his schedule wouldn't allow him to do both.because of how much he loved the character.

"Careers are funny things — you never really know. When I read about the character on the page, I was like, 'This is somebody I understand.'""It was one of those brutal things," he said of his decision to pass on."Yeah, the timing couldn’t work out for both. I’m not trying to sound boastful. It was a small, little part, but I’ve never been part of some beautiful, big, cool thing like that. It would have been cool to be able to do both.

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