Anne Hathaway is glad she never made her Barbie movie or Spider-Man 4

Anne Hathaway doesn’t seem like the kind of person who lets herself get bogged down by regrets. She certainly presents a cheery vibe, but she’s a professional actor and could probably make us think “boy, that Anne Hathaway sure seems nice” in her sleep. What we mean is that she doesn’t seem like a Jacob Elordi-type who will someday be like “that thing I did was stupid.” Anyway, it’s a big day for Anne Hathaway not regretting things, because she brought up a few of them on a recent appearance on the Happy Said Confused podcast (via Variety).

The big headline item is that Hathaway talked about her attempt to get a Barbie movie off the ground before Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie took over, telling host Josh Horowitz that Gerwig and Robbie and the rest of their “phenomenal team” managed to “hit a bullseye” with their movie that “caused the entire world to reach this level of ecstasy.” She says it’s a “lucky thing” that her movie didn’t get made, because it wouldn’t have been “the right version” and it wouldn’t have been able to pull off the things that Gerwig’s movie did. “I genuinely think their film was the best possible version,” she noted.

Hathaway’s film, which had script input from Amy Schumer, was apparently going to be about Barbie getting kicked out of the place where Barbies live and going on an adventure in the real world, with Variety comparing it to Splash, which probably means it would’ve involved Barbie falling in love with a human man and becoming a better(?) person(?) in the process. That sounds like the more obvious/nightmare version of what we got, so her assessment is probably correct.

As for Hathaway’s other not-regret, she also mentioned that she was attached to play the Black Cat in Sam Raimi’s doomed Spider-Man 4. However, she was never fitted for a costume and never saw a full script before Sony canned the movie and rebooted the franchise. She figures that she probably wouldn’t have been considered for Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises if that had happened, since Christopher Nolan might’ve thought she was “occupied in another universe,” but it’s also worth noting that the characters—especially the way she played Catwoman in the Batman movie—are pretty much identical.

One is a cat-themed thief who wears a tight black suit and flirts with the hero, the other is a cat-themed thief who wears a tight black suit and flirts with the hero. It would’ve been very odd to have her play both.