Lena Dunham reveals she will no longer be making the Polly Pocket movie starring Lily Collins...

and it has to do with Margot Robbie's Barbie film Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com By Alesia Stanford For Dailymail.Com Published: 21:59, 9 July 2024 | Updated: 22:19, 9 July 2024 e-mail 25 shares View comments Lena Dunham has dropped out of the Polly Pocket movie project.

The multi-hyphenate, who was spotted in the Royal Box at Wimbledon with pal Stephen Fry on Tuesday, revealed the news during an interview with The New Yorker . 'I'm going to tell you something here that I haven't told anyone,' The Girls star and creator, 38, told the outlet. 'I'm not going to make the Polly Pocket movie.

I wrote a script, and I was working on it for three years.' Emily in Paris star Lily Collins , 35, had been signed to portray the title character, based on the popular 1980s toy, when the project was announced in 2021. Dunham explained it was fellow writer and director Greta Gerwig 's success with the blockbuster Barbie that fueled her decision to step away.

Lena Dunham, 38, has dropped out of the Polly Pocket movie project three years after signing on for the project. 'I wrote a script, and I was working on it for three years,' she told The New Yorker (pictured in Berlin in February) Read More Lily Collins shares the gory makeup transformation for MaXXXine 'I think Greta managed this incredible feat [with Barbie], which was to make this thing that was literally candy to so many di.