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Amy Schumer says bye bye Barbieland

Citing scheduling conflicts, the controversial Jewish comedienne withdraws from the live-action Mattel movie about the doll with impossible proportions

Amy Schumer has bowed out of the 'Barbie' movie due to scheduling conflicts. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images via JTA)

Actress and comedienne Amy Schumer has backed out of the title role in the upcoming live action “Barbie” movie, citing scheduling conflicts. Schumer was also contributing to the script’s rewrite.

Since her 2015 award-nominated movie “Trainwreck,” the star certainly is busy.

According to a statement by Schumer, the promotional tour of her upcoming film “Snatched,” and filming of “She Came to Me” (also starring Nicole Kidman and Steve Carell), are set to coincide with “Barbie,” which begins filming on June 23.

When her role as Barbie was originally announced, Schumer, known as an outspoken feminist, went head-to-head with fat-shaming social media trolls who claim she doesn’t fit the mold for the plastic plaything.

In response to critics who mocked her “average” body, she reposted a photo of herself in a black one-piece bathing suit, and expressed her “deepest sympathy” to “the trolls who are in more pain than we will ever understand.”


But the provocative proponent of women’s rights isn’t without her share of controversy in other arenas — including with her own Tribe, when she posed between a clarinetist and saxophonist and tweeted the image with the caption, “A Jew with horns.”

Her constant references to her anatomy also rub some the wrong way, and even those who aren’t offended are starting to find the routine tiresome.

She was also accused by three female comedians on Twitter of stealing jokes. Though claims that she plagiarized were taken back, fans — and ex-fans — acted as jury and compared uncannily similar clips of Schumer next to older stand-up routines by some of her peers.

While Schumer denies stealing any jokes and even said she’d take a lie detector test to prove it, it’s hard to deny the likeness between the bits — something her accusers rolled back and called “parallel thinking.”

Still, like most celebrities of the Jewish persuasion, the feminist funnywoman and cousin of Senator Chuck Schumer is a favorite among her coreligionists — even her old Hebrew school rabbi recalls her childhood shenanigans fondly.

For its part, Sony, who is backing the “Barbie” film, says that it supports Schumer’s decision to bow out.

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