Barbie Casting Director Reveals the Stars Who Needed to Flip Down Ken Roles – E! On-line

Sure, there have been fairly a couple of actors that naturally exuded that Ken-ergy.
 
Although Ryan Gosling, Simu Liu and Kingsley Ben-Adir had been amongst those who ended up making the lower as Ken dolls in Barbie alongside Margot Robbie, Issa Rae and extra, the film’s casting administrators revealed that there have been a couple of others who needed to bow out as a result of solid having to spend three months filming in London.
 
And among the many actors who practically took up residence in Barbieland had been Saturday Evening Reside star Bowen Yang, Schitt’s Creek alum Dan Levy and Expensive Evan Hansen actor Ben Platt.
 
“They had been, I am not kidding,” the movie’s casting director Allison Jones instructed Vanity Fair July 20, “actually bummed they could not do it.”

And it wasn’t simply Ken that actors had been eagerly able to play, as Allan (Ken’s buddy performed by Michael Cera) had his personal checklist of opponents, one among which included a Glee alum.

“Expensive, expensive Jonathan Groff was like, ‘I can not imagine I am typing this,” Allison continued, “however I can not do Allan.”