Oscar-winning "Juno" screenwriter Diablo Cody recently claimed she dropped out of a "Barbie" film that was in production at Sony because she couldn’t figure out how to make the iconic doll a "feminist" icon.

In an interview with GQ, Cody claimed she just couldn’t get a script together for the film, which was ultimately dropped by the studio in 2018, five years before Warner Brothers took up the project starring Margot Robbie that is set to premiere later this month. 

Cody got candid with the magazine, claiming that, among other reasons, she had trouble finalizing the script because she didn’t know how to make the doll into a "girl-boss" "feminist" hero. 

The Hollywood talent declared "that’s not what Barbie is."

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The screenwriter admitted to GQ that she bombed at the project, claiming the culture and her were not aligned on what a Barbie movie could be. She said, "I think I know why I s--- the bed. When I was first hired for this, I don’t think the culture had not [sic] embraced the femme or the bimbo as valid feminist archetypes yet."

She acknowledged that now there seems to be more of a path forward for a big screen version of the doll than there was at the time she was involved. She added, "If you look up ‘Barbie’ on TikTok you’ll find this wonderful subculture that celebrates the feminine, but in 2014, taking this skinny blonde white doll and making her into a heroine was a tall order."

Alluding to more of what Sony had in mind for the character, a more ironic, self-aware Barbie, Cody continued, saying, "That idea of an anti-Barbie made a lot of sense given the feminist rhetoric of 10 years ago."

However, she noted she had a hard time squaring that idea of "anti-Barbie" with the earnest, straightforwardly feminine iconography of the character. "I didn’t really have the freedom then to write something that was faithful to the iconography; they wanted a girl-boss feminist twist on Barbie, and I couldn’t figure it out because that’s not what Barbie is."

Ironically, comedian and actress Amy Schumer dropped the same Sony production because it wasn’t pro-feminist enough. During a recent interview with "Watch What Happens Live" host Andy Cohen, Schumer affirmed she left the movie because it didn’t "feel feminist and cool."

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Cody also noted to GQ that the success of Warner Brother’s "The Lego Movie" at that time added to her pressure while she was trying to come up with a screenplay for "Barbie." She claimed, "I heard endless references to ‘The Lego Movie’ in development, and it created a problem for me because they had done it so well. Any time I came up with something meta, it was too much like what they had done."

"It was a roadblock for me," she added.

It remains to be seen whether Warner Brothers’ "Barbie" film embraces heavy feminist themes, though there are hints there may be at least a woke element or two to the film.

In a recent interview, with Fandango.com, "Barbie" actress Kate McKinnon described the upcoming film’s script saying, "I knew it was going to be something and then I read it, and it was like, sort of about how like gender roles deny people half their humanity and how like we need to just like be ourselves."

Others have raised concerns over the film’s geopolitical implications, of all things. Recently, lawmakers from the U.S., Vietnam, and The Philippines alleged that the film’s studio tried to throw a bone to the Chinese government, claiming a cartoon map of Asia featured in the film depicts China’s claims in the South China Sea. 

Though representatives for the studio have since denied the drawing depicts Chinese interests. 

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A woman has made 23 recipes found on gravestones throughout the country — and has even begun bringing each of her culinary creations to the tombstones of the deceased people who featured them.

Rosie Grant, 33, stumbled upon a spritz cookie recipe carved into a headstone while she was earning her master's degree at the University of Maryland. In August 2021, Grant found an open-book design on top of a tombstone — with a full cookie recipe engraved there. 

That gravestone is located at the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Grant, today a librarian and communications manager, went home and baked cookies from that recipe — and even brought them back to the grave to eat as a kind of munch-and-mourn ritual.

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"I saw a grave spritz cookie and I thought, ‘I’m curious to see how this cookie tastes,’" she told news service SWNS.

From there, the Los Angeles resident decided to see if the engraving of recipes on tombstones was a common practice — turns out it's more prevalent than most people might think.

She has now tried 23 different meals and treats featured on gravestones at cemeteries all across the country — in Utah, Iowa, Alaska, Louisiana, Washington and more. 

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Taking it a step further, Grant has visited six of the gravesites so far with the recipes they feature, bringing along her homemade food specific to that grave.

Grant said she would love to visit all the graves with the food they feature — from snickerdoodle cookies to blueberry pies to meatloaf and even party dips.

"I’d love to cook with some of the families," she said.

Grant runs a TikTok account called @GhostlyArchive and posts her ghostly baking adventures there — earning nearly 8 million likes and over 193,000 followers. 

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After she began sharing her journey online, Grant said families reached out to her about their relatives’ gravestone recipes. 

Grant said that although cemeteries are beautiful places, she used to feel uncomfortable around the topic of death, she told SWNS. 

Today, however, she's begun to have a different view.

"For me, the gravestone recipes are for the living," she said. 

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Grant said food and cooking reminds her of her own family. 

"Food is such an important part of my relationship with family — every gathering has food at it," she said. 

When asked if she herself will put a recipe on her own gravestone one day, Grant said she will — choosing clam linguine as the one to remember. 

That way, she said, her own family "could think of the memory of us cooking it together." 

As she told Washingtonian recently in an interview, "I don’t want to think about my own death, but I don’t mind thinking about a recipe people remember me for."

In terms of any patterns she's seen in gravestone recipes, she said a lot of them have been cookie recipes.

"There’s something forgiving about a cookie recipe. You can throw it all together," she told Washingtonian. "The instructions can be minimal — they’re limited on a gravestone — and it involves standard ingredients: butter, sugar, eggs."