Margot Robbie thought they would never be allowed to actually make this Barbie movie
We still don't really know what's so special about this Barbie movie, but the secrecy is part of the fun
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Even with the first trailer out and all of those memes clogging up our collective timelines, we still don’t know much about Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie. It’s obviously some big meta-thing, with Margot Robbie’s Barbie and Ryan Gosling’s Ken going from the Barbie-filled Barbie Land to the Real World (where Will Ferrell will be playing the head of Mattel), but anything beyond that has been kept suspiciously secret—which is particularly surprising based on the fact that it should be easy to predict where the story goes from there in a post-Lego Movie world (and that also featured Will Ferrell as the key character to the meta-thing about it).
But whatever’s up with the Barbie movie, it’s all apparently so cool that Robbie was convinced that it could never actually get made. In a video for BAFTA, Robbie said that her first reaction after reading Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s screenplay was, “Ah! This is so good. What a shame it will never see the light of day because they are never going to let us make this movie.” But, as she notes, “they did.”
In that same video, she refuses to divulge any additional details about Barbie or why it’s so cool or why she didn’t think Hollywood could handle it, so… maybe we’ll never know. It will remain a mystery forever. We could wait until Barbie comes out on July 21, but who has time for that?
Whatever happens, we’re just hoping for a post-credits stinger where Will Ferrell’s character introduces Barbie to a Hot Wheels car and together they go try to beat up some Transformers and G.I. Joes (which are Hasbro properties and are therefore Mattel’s most hated enemies).
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I know what they’re doing:
Huh… it just occurred to me that two of the six Ken actors — presumably the main ones? — are Canadian. Neat.
Near as I can tell, a third of actors working in Hollywood are Canadian and another third are Australian or British.
WE’RE BEING OVERRUN BY THE COMMONWEALTH!
Emma and Margot in the same frame feels illegal somehow.
They should have added Samara Weaving and had the three actresses tag-team the lead role.
Is Jaime Pressly chopped liver?
If you’re spending 100 million, it’s because it’s a comedy with bankable leads and not exactly avant garde
it’s also a movie based on a childs’ toy where the longest sequence in the trailer has all the male characters aggressively threatening to beat each other off, co-written by the guy who made Marriage Story. i think it’ll probably be a little unusual
I do wonder why Gosling bleached his hair when the regular ken has brown hair Goslings natural hair color.
Google the phrase “highest selling Ken doll” and behold the bleach-blond majesty.
Oh riiiight, the blond one who became a gay icon because of his cock ring necklace (among other things). Man that’s funny.
I get that but Brown haired ken is the classic
I’ve never seen a Barbie movie or show. Does she have personality? A background story? I always just assumed her personas reflected whatever outfit she was wrapped in. My tattered, second-hand Barbies didn’t even have clothes:/ I’m imagining a sort of generic West Coast Valley Girl, only nicer? Like Betty in the Archie comics. Is see that it’s rated PG-13. OK. I hope she isn’t disappointed by humans…
As long as they’re all anatomically correct:
At this point I’m convinced that somehow we still won’t know what this movie is about in August, when it’s already been out for a week.
I think doing a straight forward adaptation would actually be weirder than whatever this movie ends up being.
My guess is it’s some kind of “Truman Show” scenario on a larger scale and the writers have their fingers crossed no one remembers it’s been done before.