Timothée Chalamet Reveals The Ken He Could Have Been In Scrapped ‘Barbie’ Cameo: “Maybe There Was A Reject French One Along The Way”

Timothée Chalamet spilled about the Barbie cameo he and Saoirse Ronan couldn’t make work.

According to Entertainment Tonight, the Wonka star talked what could have been on The Tonight Show on Wednesday night (Dec. 13), telling host Jimmy Fallon that “there was an idea” for he and Ronan to have a cameo in the blockbuster film.

“I don’t know what the cameo would’ve been,” he claimed. “I think I would’ve been one of the rejected Kens or Barbies. Not Allan, but something. Maybe there was a reject French one along the way, I don’t know.”

Barbie director Greta Gerwig, who directed Chalamet and Ronan in Lady Bird (2017) and Little Women (2019), told Cinema Blend back in July that their absence from her summer blockbuster “felt like doing something without [her] children.”

“I mean, I’m not their mom, but I sort of feel like their mom,” she quipped to the outlet.

Gerwig even recalled in a previous interview with Hollywood First Look that after Chalamet visited the set, the two of them both agreed that he should’ve appeared in the film.

Chalamet also mentioned visiting Gerwig in Barbieland during his interview with Fallon.

“I did, because when I finished Wonka, the Barbie set had been built, so it was kind of going from fantastical London, chocolate,” he explained. “The set is insane.”

He also gushed about the “amazing” set of his new film, in which he stars as Roald Dahl’s famous chocolatier, Willy Wonka.

“It was practically built, very little green screen,” he shared. “And then the second we were done, they tore it all down, and it doesn’t exist anymore.”

Wonka is now in theaters, while Barbie is now streaming on Max. The Tonight Show airs on weeknights. Check the website for local listings, and watch Chalamet’s interview above.