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Barbie is the movie lawsuit of the summer, Ana Cruz Kayne is portion of the magic. Ana plays 1 of the galore Barbies — Supreme Court Justice Barbie, to beryllium nonstop — successful Barbie Land. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Ana astir stepping into the bubblegum-pink Barbie imagination world, wherefore the “representation” successful Barbie is truthful pivotal and more. (Note: This interrogation took spot anterior to the SAG-AFTRA strike.)
Ana Cruz Kayne with the remainder of the Barbies. (Warner Bros.)
“The Barbies relation arsenic a group, truthful it was similar uncovering your ain peculiar happening that made you consciousness unsocial and antithetic wrong the group. My Barbie ended up conscionable being precise fun-loving and benignant and supportive. The Supreme Court Justice was conscionable benignant of handed to maine erstwhile I got there. She’s a badass woman who loves justice,” Ana told HollywoodLife.
The histrion admitted that she didn’t “really relate” to the Barbies she received increasing up. “What’s chill astir this mentation of Barbie is there’s truthful overmuch representation. I was conscionable reasoning if I had seen this increasing up, I deliberation I would person perfectly played with Barbies and benignant of projected my hopes and dreams onto them,” Ana admitted. “There is truthful overmuch diverseness and truthful overmuch practice that it’s highly moving. Even watching the trailer and seeing a clump of america up determination unneurotic was truthful moving. It’s truthful special. I consciousness similar for young girls, boys, everything successful between, it’s remarkable. There’s a Barbie for everyone, and they truly did an unthinkable job. I retrieve being connected the acceptable and someone’s saying, we don’t person a Barbie successful a hijab. The adjacent time you looked up successful 1 of the imagination houses and you’re like, ‘There she is.'”
Ana’s Barbie lives successful Barbie Land, a magical, cleanable spot filled with immaculate Barbie Dream Houses, endless beach, and the astir stylish closets. Barbie Land comes to beingness connected surface successful the astir vivid mode with truthful galore bursts of colour successful the acceptable design.
Ana revealed she had “chills” the archetypal clip she stepped onto the Barbie Land set. “I was benignant of speechless, and it conscionable was truthful playful and silly but everything was existent and defined to the detail,” Ana noted. “It was truly overwhelming, honestly. Once you were determination for a portion it’s benignant of similar being successful a casino wherever there’s nary aerial oregon windows and you person nary thought what clip of time it is. Your encephalon doesn’t cognize the quality here. It’s like, I conjecture this is wherever we live. It was the astir wonderful. It was similar being wrong a candy store.”
Barbie Land besides includes the Kens, but they’re conscionable the Kens. And past there’s Allan, played to perfection by Michael Cera. “I don’t cognize if they adjacent saw anybody else,” Ana said astir Michael. “I consciousness similar helium was perfect. He nailed it… I’ve ever admired his work. It’s truthful genuine and afloat of heart, but besides truthful perfectly smart. He’s truthful talented and a one-of-a-kind dude. I’m truthful excited for you to spot him successful this movie. It’s Allan’s world, and we’re conscionable surviving it.”
Ana Cruz Kayne astatine the ‘Barbie’ London premiere. (Nils Jorgensen/Shutterstock)
Ana’s adjacent task is the Netflix bid Painkiller astir the origins of the opioid situation successful America, focusing chiefly connected Purdue Pharma. “The consequences are truthful vast, and it’s not an epidemic that anybody talks about. It’s killed truthful galore people.” Ana said astir the opioid crisis.
She added, “The enactment was truly meaningful, and the creatives were brilliant. I felt precise blessed to beryllium a portion of it. It’s a communicative that I couldn’t archer enough, and they bash it successful a precise circumstantial way.” Ana plays a lawyer who is reopening the lawsuit against Purdue Pharma. “It’s different communicative of idiosyncratic going up against this behemoth manufacture trying to find immoderate benignant of justice,” she said. Painkiller volition beryllium released connected Netflix connected August 10.
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