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Ethan Hawke is speaking for the first time about his latest Richard Linklater collaboration, “Blue Moon,” revealing that he first read the script for the biopic of lyricist Lorenz Hart 12 years ago.

“I love it, let’s do it. We gotta make this movie,” Hawke recalled telling Linklater during a Venice Film Festival masterclass on Monday. But there was just one problem — the director thought Hawke was “still too attractive” to pull off the role.

“He’s like, ‘Cool, we’re going to make it, but we need to wait a while.’ Why do we need to wait a while? He said, ‘You’re still too attractive. We gotta wait til you’re a little less attractive.’ I was like, ‘What are you talking about?'” Hawke said. “He’s like, ‘Just trust me. Let’s just put it in a drawer, and every couple of years let’s read...

Barbie star Margot Robbie recently revealed that she compared the upcoming fantasy-comedy to Jurassic Park during a pitch meeting with Mattel Films and Warner Bros. Pictures.

Robbie, who is also one of Barbie's producers, unpacked the unlikely comparison in an interview with Collider. "I think my pitch in the green-light meeting was: 'The studios have prospered so much when they're brave enough to pair a big idea with a visionary director,'" Robbie said. "And then I gave a series of examples like, 'dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg' -- pretty much naming anything that’s been incredible and made a ton of money for the studios over the years. And I was like, 'And now you’ve got Barbie and [director] Greta Gerwig.' And I think I told them that it'd make a billion dollars, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, okay?"

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