CNN —Ryan Gosling may or may not be your ideal Ken in the new “Barbie” movie, but one of the film’s casting directors has shared who else might have gotten the role.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Allison Jones — who cast the hit film along with Lucy Bevan — talked about who else might have joined Barbie in her dream house.
Like the line of dolls the movie is based on, there are multiple Barbies and Kens portrayed by a diverse cast of actors.
And that meant Bowen Yang, Dan Levy, and Ben Platt were out of the running to play Ken.
“Simu Liu was dying to be a Ken, God bless him,” Jones said of the actor who was eventually cast as one of the Kens.
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