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Barbie has gotten the live-action treatment, and she’s already the queen of summer. Suicide Squad prima Margot Robbie has taken connected the titular role of Barbie successful the Greta Gerwig movie alongside Ryan Gosling and galore different deed Hollywood actors. After teasers and trailers, arsenic good arsenic a planetary property tour, Barbie is yet here. (For those who are celebrating Barbenheimer, the improvement surrounding Barbie and Oppenheimer, your clip is now.)
So, who each is successful the Barbie movie? What is the movie about? Here are each the cardinal things you request to cognize astir the Barbie movie.
The Cast
Greta’s latest task is filled with galore A-list actors! Aside from Margot taking connected the relation of Barbie, galore others volition articulation her, including Ryan Gosling arsenic Ken. Other formed members see Sex Education‘s Emma Mackey, Shang-Chi’s Simu Liu, Ugly Betty’s America Ferrera, SNL alum Kate McKinnon, Insecure‘s Issa Rae, Hari Nef, Michael Cera, Will Ferrell, Alexandra Shipp, Ariana Greenblatt, and more. America spoke to PEOPLE about the movie and shared that audiences should fto spell of immoderate expectations. “People don’t person immoderate thought what to expect [with the film], and I deliberation that that’s the close vibe,” she said. “Whatever you deliberation it is, it’s not that. It’s thing else.” Don’t judge her? Just cheque retired immoderate of the quality posters!
Margot Robbie
Photo: Warner Bros Pictures
Ryan Gosling
Photo: Warner Bros Pictures
Kate McKinnon
Photo: Warner Bros Pictures
America Ferrara
Photo: Warner Bros Pictures
Dua Lipa
Photo: Warner Bros Pictures
Alexandra Shipp
Photo: Warner Bros Pictures
Simu Liu
Photo: Warner Bros Pictures
Issa Rae
Photo: Warner Bros Pictures
Ana Cruz Kayne plays 1 of the Barbies successful Barbie Land, specifically the Supreme Court Justice Barbie. “What’s chill astir this mentation of Barbie is there’s truthful overmuch representation,” Anna told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY. “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.’”
One idiosyncratic who isn’t successful the Barbie movie is Amy Schumer. Amy was primitively attached to the task arsenic the pb prima earlier she dropped retired successful 2017, and past Greta and Noah Baumbach took implicit penning the screenplay. Amy explained wherefore she discontinue the movie erstwhile she appeared connected Watch What Happens Live on June 8, 2023.
“I can’t hold to spot the movie. I deliberation it looks awesome. I deliberation we said it was scheduling conflicts,” Amy said to Andy Cohen. “That’s what we said. But it truly was conscionable like, originative differences. But there’s a caller squad down it and it looks similar it’s precise feminist and cool, truthful I volition beryllium seeing this movie.” When Andy asked Amy if the archetypal mentation of the movie “didn’t consciousness feminist and cool,” she responded, “Yes.”
Barbie Release Date
Margot Robbie is besides a shaper connected ‘Barbie’ on with her husband, Tom Ackerley. (Splashnews)
The workplace officially announced the merchandise day for the highly anticipated movie connected April 26, via Instagram. In the announcement, Warner Bros. besides shared a photograph of Margot arsenic the beloved character! They captioned the station with the merchandise date, “#BARBIE July 21, 2023 Only successful theaters.”
Barbie‘s prima adjacent spoke astir the task to British Vogue mode backmost successful June 2021. “Right, it comes with a batch of baggage [playing Barbie]!” Margot said. “And a batch of nostalgic connections. But with that travel a batch of breathtaking ways to onslaught it. People mostly perceive ‘Barbie’ and think, ‘I cognize what that movie is going to be,’ and past they perceive that Greta Gerwig is penning and directing it, and they’re like, ‘Oh, well, possibly I don’t.'” Greta directed the 2017 indie movie Lady Bird, arsenic good arsenic the 2019 movie Little Women starring Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, and Timothée Chalamet.
First Look
Ryan Gosling & Margot Robbie connected the acceptable of ‘Barbie’ successful 2022. (Mega)
The authoritative teaser trailer for Barbie dropped connected December 16. Aside from Margot, fans got a glimpse astatine Ryan arsenic Ken, Issa Rae, Simu Liu, and more. They besides got to spot Margot wearing the iconic Barbie achromatic and achromatic swimsuit. The teaser initially played earlier Avatar: The Way of Water screenings earlier being released wide.
In addition, Margot and Ryan were spotted retired and astir during the filming of the movie. A root adjacent to the accumulation squad told HollywoodLife that the histrion adjacent worked connected her birthday. “Margot had to enactment her day week but it was truthful saccharine due to the fact that she was amazed erstwhile the formed and unit got her a elephantine Barbie barroom to observe her day portion working,” the insider told us. Some of the archetypal looks astatine the quality included a blistery pinkish cowgirl outfit and Ryan’s achromatic cowboy look. They were adjacent spotted successful a 1980s rollerblade look with hot pinkish ensembles embracing the iconic doll’s celebrated color.
Warner Bros. released a teaser trailer for Barbie connected April 3. Margot’s Barbie wears fabulous all-pink outfits and drives the iconic Barbie pinkish convertible with Ken successful the backseat. She besides hangs retired with different versions of Barbie. The main trailer dropped successful May 2023 and has already amassed implicit 46 cardinal views.
Plot
Barbie suffers an existential situation astir her intent successful beingness successful Barbie Land contempt having a cleanable life. When she begins to person thoughts of death, level feet, and more, Weird Barbie tells her that she has to spell to the existent satellite and find the miss who’s playing with her. Barbie has to hole the rip betwixt Barbie Land and the existent satellite earlier it’s excessively late. This sends Barbie connected a travel with Ken. In the existent world, thing is arsenic Barbie and Ken expected. However, Barbie does conscionable Gloria, the pistillate who’s been playing with her. Barbie wants to instrumentality Gloria and her girl backmost to Barbie Land to amusement them however the Barbies are successful complaint and everything is perfect.
Ken returns to Barbie Land and brings the patriarchy with him. He takes implicit Barbie Land with the remainder of the Kens and turns it into Kendom. After immoderate encouragement from Gloria, Barbie picks herself up and fights to prevention the different Barbies and Barbie Land. The Barbies win successful taking down the Kens. However, erstwhile the combat is over, Barbie inactive doesn’t consciousness similar she’s enough. She wants to beryllium successful complaint of her ain destiny, her ain ending, truthful she decides that she wants to beryllium turned into a human. The movie ends with Barbie returning to the existent satellite with Gloria and Sasha.
In December 2020, Margot told The Hollywood Reporter, “We similar the things that consciousness a small near of center. Something similar Barbie wherever the IP, the sanction itself, radical instantly person an thought of, ‘Oh, Margot is playing Barbie, I cognize what that is,’ but our extremity is to beryllium like, ‘Whatever you’re thinking, we’re going to springiness you thing wholly antithetic — the happening you didn’t cognize you wanted.'”
To hole for Barbie, Margot told Vogue that Greta told her to perceive to an occurrence of the podcast This American Life about a pistillate who doesn’t introspect. In that aforesaid interview, Margot weighed successful connected the debate that Barbie is being sexualized for the movie. “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,” Margot said. “I she doesn’t person reproductive organs, would she adjacent consciousness intersexual desire? No, I don’t deliberation she could. 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.”
The Wolf of Wall Street prima co-produced the movie on with her hubby Tom Ackerley. Others producing see Robbie Brenner, Walter Parkes, David Heyman, real-life Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz, and Josey McNamara.
Barbie Soundtrack
There are so many artists featured connected the highly-anticipated Barbie soundtrack. Barbie: The Album features Ava Max, Charli XCX, Dominic Fike, Dua Lipa, Fifty Fifty, Gayle, Haim, Ice Spice, Kali, Karol G, Khalid, Lizzo, Nicki Minaj, PinkPantheress, Ryan Gosling, Tame Impala, and the Kid Laroi. There are astatine slightest 17 songs connected the way list. The soundtrack volition beryllium released the aforesaid time the movie comes out.
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