Margot Robbie Reacts To Claims That Barbie Has Been Sexualized: ‘She’s A Plastic Doll’

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The treatment astir Barbie’s interaction connected young girls’ assemblage image has been studied and debated for years. Whether the upcoming Barbie movie addresses that remains to beryllium seen. Ahead of the July 21 merchandise date, Margot Robbie – who portrays the titular artifact – weighed successful connected the character’s wide sexiness erstwhile talking to Vogue’s Abby Aguirre about bringing the integrative artifact to life. “I’m like, ‘Okay, she’s a doll. She’s a integrative doll.’ She doesn’t person organs. If she doesn’t person organs, she doesn’t person reproductive organs,” says Margot, 32. “I she doesn’t person reproductive organs, would she adjacent consciousness intersexual desire?”

“No, I don’t deliberation she could,” continued Robbie. “She is sexualized. But she should ne'er beryllium sexy. People tin task enactment onto her. Yes, she tin deterioration a abbreviated skirt, but due to the fact that it’s amusive and pink. Not due to the fact that she wanted you to spot her butt.”

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Margot besides revealed however manager Greta Gerwig helped Margot get into Barbie’s caput – by pointing retired that there’s thing successful the doll’s. “I was like, ‘Greta, I request to spell connected this full quality journey.’ And Greta was like, ‘Oh, I person a truly bully podcast for you.'” Greta gave Margot an occurrence of This American Life about a pistillate who doesn’t introspect. “You cognize however you person a dependable successful your caput each the time?” Robbie says. “This woman, she doesn’t person that dependable successful her head.”

During the speech with Vogue, Margot revealed she wasn’t definite she adjacent owned a Barbie doll arsenic a child. “I don’t deliberation I did,” she said. “I cognize my relative had a clump of Barbies, and I’d spell to her house.” She chiefly spent her puerility playing with trucks and gathering forts with her cousin. So, the relation successful the upcoming Barbie film isn’t a bucket-list point for her.

“It wasn’t that I ever wanted to play Barbie oregon dreamt of being Barbie oregon thing similar that,” said Robbie. “This is going to dependable stupid, but I truly didn’t adjacent deliberation astir playing Barbie until years into processing the project.”

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In 2018, Margot met with the CEO of Mattel, Ynon Kriez, astir her accumulation institution LuckyChap (which she runs with her husband, Tom Ackerley, and her friend, Josey McNamara) astir making a Barbie movie. “We, of course, would privation to grant the 60-year bequest that this marque has,” Robbie says. “But we person to admit that determination are a batch of radical who aren’t fans of Barbie. And, successful fact, aren’t conscionable indifferent to Barbie. They actively hate Barbie. And person a real issue with Barbie. We request to find a mode to admit that.”

Greta joined the task nether the statement that she and her partner, Noah Baumbach, could constitute the script. Margot and LuckyChap managed a woody to springiness Gerwig and Baumbach originative freedom. Margot and Tom work the Barbie finished publication astatine the aforesaid time. They reached a gag that made them look astatine each different with “pure panic” connected their faces.

“We were similar Holy f*cking sh*t,” said Robbie. “I deliberation the archetypal happening I said to Tom was, ‘This is truthful genius. It is specified a shame that we’re ne'er going to beryllium capable to marque this movie.'” However, contempt each odds, the movie got made, and it hits theaters connected July 21.

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