Michael Cera has been left out of ‘Barbie’ group chat
FRANCE –
Sometimes stars are not like us.
In the case of “Barbie” star Michael Cera, he’s a bit old-fashioned when it comes to technology.
Cera revealed to People magazine that for one simple reason he was not in the group chat with his co-stars in the movie ‘Barbie’, including Margot Robbie, America Ferrera, Ryan Gosling and Issa Rae.
“I don’t have an iPhone myself,” he said. “I have a flip phone.”
That’s right, Cera couldn’t even take a picture of Barbie’s dream house with his old phone.
The actor plays Ken’s friend Allan in the film and said it made sense not to be in the group chat for his role.
“I still think I wouldn’t fit in [the group chat] anyway, because [my character] Allan is kind of in his own little world,” Cera explained. “Brill [Gerwig, the director]’s gift to me when I arrived was a picture disc of NSYNC’s ‘No Strings Attached’, which somehow felt like a real guiding light in this character’s backstory.
It’s not the first time Cera has revealed that he’s not technologically advanced when it comes to his phone.
He told The Hollywood Reporter that not having a smartphone “is a conscious choice because I’m honestly kind of scared of it, like I’d really lose control of my waking life.”
“Right when people started getting smartphones, when it was Blackberries, I was having lunch with a friend of mine who was my best friend at the time, and he’d just gotten a Blackberry, and for the whole meal he was typing emails, and I sat there lonely and bored,” said Cera. “So I had an early dislike for them.”
Barbie hits theaters on July 21.
