Come on Harley, let’s go party! Here’s the first look at Margot Robbie as Barbie
Warner Bros. Pictures shared the promotional image at CinemaCon in Las Vegas
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Despite very little information to go off of, Greta Gerwig’s forthcoming Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie as the titular doll has become one of Hollywood’s most anticipated releases. Now, studio Warner Bros. has shared a first look at the film and set a theatrical release date for July 21, 2023.
Revealed at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, the promotional image depicts Robbie in Barbie’s iconic pink convertible and sporting a sweet retro look with a polka dot headband and color-coordinated striped halter top. (The doll line launched in 1959.) Ryan Gosling’s appearance as Ken is being kept under wraps for now.
Now filming in London, the rest of the Barbie cast consists of pretty much every actor who hasn’t been booked for Oppenheimer. The ensemble includes Issa Rae (Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse), Michael Cera (The Lego Batman Movie), Simu Liu (Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings), America Ferrara (Superstore), Sharon Rooney (My Mad Fat Diary), Rhea Perlman (Marvelous And The Black Hole), Hari Nef (And Just Like That…), Jamie Demetriou (The Afterparty), and Will Ferrell (Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga).
Sex Education stars Emma Mackey, Ncuti Gatwa, and Connor Swindells are all more recent additions; Mackey has been widely noted for her resemblance to Robbie, so it’s probably only a matter of time before fellow doppelgängers Samara Weaving and Jaime Pressly sign on.
Little is known about the other roles beyond Barbie and Ken, though Liu has posted to social media about getting his arms and legs waxed in order to appear more doll-like.
Get ready for the new MCU: Mattel Cinematic Universe. As reported by Variety, other toys have been tipped to get the movie treatment, including the magic 8 ball, Polly Pocket, Hot Wheels, Chatty Cathy, and Betsy Wetsy. A Masters Of The Universe adaptation has been on the table for a while now, with Kyle Allen recently being announced as Noah Centineo’s replacement for He-Man.
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Damn you Katie, now that song will be stuck in my head all day
Margot Robbie doesn’t look anything like Barbie.“If Barbie were an actual woman, she would be 5’9″ tall, have a 39″ bust, an 18″ waist, 33″ hips and a size 3 shoe,” Slayen wrote in the Huffington Post. “She likely would not menstruate… she’d have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.”
Slayen estimates Barbie would weigh 110 pounds and have a BMI of 16.24. She based her numbers on the book “Body Wars” by Dr. Margo Maine, and readily admits the doll’s head, hands and some other features are not to scale.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/life-size-barbies-shocking-dimensions-photo-would-she-be-anorexic/Her 16-inch waist would also be four
inches thinner than her head, leaving room for only half a liver and a
few inches of intestine.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2308658/How-Barbies-body-size-look-real-life-Walking-fours-missing-half-liver-inches-intestine.html
“and readily admits the doll’s head, hands and some other features are not to scale.”Always overlooked… The Barbie doll was never -intended- to match a human’s proportions because clothing wouldn’t work. Her wardrobe fabric would be like an inch thick if you scaled it to human size…
I can’t work out the thought process behind going to all this work just to give the mock-up a half-sized head.
Which one is the mock-up?
Or scaling up the size of the clothes. Needs to be wearing five more of everything if they’ve blown up from 1/6th scale…
Yep, this is explanation for the size 3 feet.
He-Man action figures also aren’t really to scale. Don’t even get me started on Legos. Have you seen those hips?
As someone with a…round…torso, Lego’s offensively prismatic bodyshapes are demeaning.
Fortunately they now make “Lego friends” that have boobs, hips, and thigh gaps.
Sounds hot.
She also doesn’t have an anus and would explode with feces if she ate anything. I mean, Barbie isn’t real, film at 11.
I’d love to see that person provide similar commentary on He-Man
“If Barbie were an actual woman, she would be 5’9″ tall, have a 39″ bust, an 18″ waist, 33″ hips and a size 3 shoe,” Slayen wrote in the Huffington Post. “She likely would not menstruate… she’d have to walk on all fours due to her proportions.” Anyone else getting turned on?
“She likely would not menstruate…”…because she has no genitals?
Margot Robbie doesn’t look like Barbie because [proceeds to list the exact mathematical proportions of scaling the doll itself to human size]God, what a dumb “point”.
If you’re complaint is she looks nothing like Barbie because no woman can look like Barbie then why does it matter.
She’s got no butthole or urethra…not being able to menstruate is the least of her problems, assuming she ever eats.
What’s your issue here tho? Do you want someone to look like Barbie to play Barbie cuz that’s kinda shitty given all the things you just mentioned…
Because if any human looked like Barbie they’d be unhealthy…. unless your trying to get them to stop making this movie to which I say… good luck. Have fun with your anatomically correct Barbie film goals..
When you name a more appropriate actress to play Barbie I’ll be satisfied because Margot Robbie is probably the closest they’re gonna get. Until you enligthen me of course.
Anya Taylor-Joy?
That’s literally the first name that popped into my head as an alternative. Maybe Sophie Turner as well.I don’t think Robbie looks like Barbie here, but I have zero expectations set for this movie, so they could get Jack Black to play her and I’d still have no further reservations.
I mean, the most difficult part for the makeup crew, and Robbie, is going to be spackling over her vagina with flesh-coloured putty.
Now filming in London, the rest of the Barbie cast consists of pretty much every actor who hasn’t been booked for Oppenheimer[…] so it’s probably only a matter of time before fellow doppelgängers Samara Weaving and Jaime Pressly sign onSamara Weaving and Margot Robbie are both in the cast for Babylon, as it happens. In fact, all of Robbie’s upcoming films seem to have enormous, Oppenheimer-style casts.
I think this is an obvious trend that will result in Hollywood eventually producing one 39-hour movie each year that features every single working actor.
I think you’re right. In the last few years we’ve had:Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood!*
Knives Out/Knives More Out
Don’t Look Up
The Suicide Squad*and now this whole raft of films developed since the start of COVID:Barbie*
Asteroid City*
Canterbury Glass*
Babylon*
Oppenheimer(* denotes presence of Margot Robbie).And that’s ignoring all the big MCU crossovers.I think we can detect two trends here – firstly films increasingly hiring everybody all the time – presumably because people missed each other during lockdown?And secondly everyone wants to hang out with Margot.
I think it’s the result of declining star power generally. It seems like viewers are far less likely to see a movie simply because a famous person they like is in it. Robbie herself has struggled to turn herself into a true box office draw, despite the fact that she’s an appealing screen presence and is frequently great in the movies she chooses. But audiences do seem somewhat more willing to get behind a non-franchise movie with a lot of different stars, maybe because the star power sends some sort of signal that the movie is good. “Ooh, it Jamie Lee Curtis, and Chris Evans, and Don Johnson, and Christopher Plummer all decided to be in an ensemble cast, where their roles are relatively small, that must mean the movie is interesting.”
Aye mate I entirely agree. So few actors can make a film a success on the strength of their name alone, so we get either a) a huge pile-up of names or b) a half dozen IPs all smashed together into the same film.
For what it’s worth, I think the celebrity gumbo movies you’ve listed above (at least the ones that have already come out) are all well above average in quality. If that became the only kind of movie Hollywood made, I might grow tired of it, and want smaller pieces with fewer characters. But I don’t think we’re at any real risk of that for the moment, so I’m all for more gumbo.The movies also give a nice showcase for talented actors who aren’t famous enough to headline their own movies. It’s not like the alternative to Knives Out was a mystery starring Toni Collette or Don Johnson. Absent the movie, we simply wouldn’t have gotten a chance to see these actors in fun, juicy roles.
Yes I realised that sounded dismissive, I actually like nearly all of those films (and the MCU for that matter). And anyway there’s a great independent cinema in my town so there’s always choice, even if some films are harder to find.
Hollywood: Endgame.
I think I would prefer seeing her play Harley Quinn again. Bridget Regan recently played Poison Ivy on Batwoman. Just saying
as if Robbie is going to co-star with a CW actor at this point in her career or her agent would entertain it for even a second, they’d need a bigger star
You know there are more than 30 actors in Hollywood, right?
There are at least 35.
Yeah, but 76% are made of Hemsworths, Gyllenhaals, and Skarsgards.
I solid 80% of them are named Chris
And those are the women!The percentage of men named “Chris” is even higher.
The Wilsons, Baldwins, and Wayans’s are feeling left out.
Are any of the Baldwins “working actors” at this point?
I’m pretty sure Gyllenshaal is the preferred pluralization.
I had an uncle that was torn apart by a pack of rabid Skarsgards.
That terrible but at least it was a very sexy way to go
She’s a very good actress. And she’s very beautiful. But for someone who said she didn’t want to just be a “bombshell” on screen…barbie?!
Barbie is pretty creepy and 50s Traditionalist. Doesn’t scream “bombshell” role.
Playing *one* roll where she’s a bombshell doesn’t make her just a bombshell.
A dump truck full of money can be very persuasive.
Robert Downey, Jr. certainly thought so.It softened the pain of what a disaster Dolittle was….
OMG!!! Somebody ripped up her sleeves . . . oh, it’s supposed to be like that?
I’ll never complain about seeing more Margot Robbie, but Lene Nystrøm from Aqua was clearly the right pick.
As someone who’s seen Wolf of Wall Street I’m not sure there’s a way to see any more of Margot Robbie without getting the lense dirty.
I cannot believe nobody’s posted the video yet.Okay, here goes:PS: Can they replace Ken with René Dif? I like him better anyway.
There are some children on this site who weren’t around then to be able to appreciate your excellent reference.Let’s educate the fuckers.
When I was 12, after laboring over the decision, I chose to buy the I Know What You Did Last Summer soundtrack rather than the Aqua album Aquarium. Still regret it.
I wish this were being directed by Werner Herzog, some kind of batshit surrealist work. Something tells me Mattel would not sign off on that, though.
as if Gerwig isn’t already an incredibly offbeat choice compared to the previous one
The fact that they are going with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and Greta Grewig as the director, it’s obvious that they are trying to give this movie some legitimacy.
So the go-to reference point for Issa Rae is an unreleased animated Spider-Man sequel? And Michael Cera is “Lego Batman?” Oy…
Rhea Perlman star of… what now? Marvelous and the Black Hole? How many Emmys did she win for that?
Wow, a Marvelous and the Black Hole reference!
I don’t know what that is!
So Robbie and Mackey are two different people?!
Ohhh, that Will Ferrell . . .
Has anyone seen Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse on Netflix? I have kids that were into Barbie and there is a ton of content out there that is dreck. But, this series is funny and completely absurd. They actually have some fun with the “Barbie” concept. If you have kids, definitely push them toward watching this. That said, I keep wondering if–with the involvement of all these people that do not seem like they would be involved in a Barbie movie–these shorts/episodes will provide some inspiration for the movie.
I cannot hear that song without immediately thinking of cock magic.
Hey, son, wanna go see the Barbie movie?Yuck! That’s for girls!But everyone’s in it!
Maybe Mackey is playing Skipper?
Who’s doing the Ra’s Al Ghul cameo?
Fun fact: she only took this role because she thought there’d be snags involved.