Timothée Chalamet jokes he would have played a 'reject French' Ken in “Barbie”

Je suis juste Ken.

Timothée Chalamet could have brought some Parisian Kenergy to the Mojo Dojo Casa House.

The Wonka star, who is American and French, addressed his and Saoirse Ronan's scrapped Barbie cameos, but explained he didn't have too many details on the Barbies and Kens director Greta Gerwig had envisioned for them.

"I don't know what the cameo would have been," Chalamet said during an appearance on Jimmy Fallon's Tonight Show on Wednesday. "I think it would have been one of the rejected Kens. Not Allan. Maybe there was a reject French one along the way."

Gerwig's Barbie featured an eclectic mix of discontinued and long-forgotten dolls, including the pregnant Midge (played by Emerald Fennell) and Sugar Daddy Ken (Rob Brydon). The summer blockbuster stars Margot Robbie, also a producer on the movie, as the titular doll as she experiences an existential crisis and journeys to the real world (or, uh, Century City) for answers.

The director revealed over the summer that she approached her Little Women stars Chalamet and Ronan about "specialty cameo" roles, but scheduling conflicts did not allow for a Jo March and Laurie reunion.

"It was always going to be a smaller thing because she was actually producing at the time, which I am so proud of her for," Gerwig told CinemaBlend of Ronan, who was producing the upcoming drama The Outrun at the time.

"I was also going to do a specialty cameo with Timmy, and both of them couldn't do it, and I was so annoyed," Gerwig added. "But I love them so much. But it felt like doing something without my children. I mean, I'm not their mom, but I sort of feel like their mom." The trio also collaborated on the 2017 coming-of-age dramedy Lady Bird.

Barbie's casting director, Allison Jones, also shared some insight on the A-list actors who had to turn down roles in the film, including Bowen Yang, Dan Levy, and Ben Platt — as almost-Kens — and Jonathan Groff as Allan, a part that ultimately went to the pitch-perfect Michael Cera.

Ryan Gosling plays the central Ken in Barbie, alongside Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, Kingsley Ben-Adir, and Scott Evans.

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