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Barbie is getting the live-action treatment, and she’s acceptable to slay. Suicide Squad prima Margot Robbie takes connected the titular role of Barbie successful the Greta Gerwig movie alongside Ryan Gosling and galore different deed Hollywood actors.
Margot talked to Vogue about the highly-anticipated film, including the claims that Barbie’s being sexualized successful the movie. The histrion besides revealed however Greta helped her get into Barbie’s caput during filming.
Warner Bros. released the latest teaser trailer for Barbie connected April 3. Margot wears fabulous all-pink outfits and drives the iconic Barbie pinkish convertible with Ryan (as Ken) successful the backseat. She besides meets different versions of Barbie played by big-time actresses.
Margot Robbie successful ‘Barbie’ (Photo: Warner Bros Pictures)
In the first teaser trailer, which was released successful December 2022, Margot donned the iconic achromatic and achromatic swimsuit Barbie archetypal wore successful 1959. The teaser initially played earlier Avatar: The Way of Water screenings earlier being released wide. Here is everything 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. On June 15, Warner Bros. Pictures shared a photo of Ryan successful quality via Twitter! Will Ferrell is playing the relation of CEO of Mattel, the artifact institution that created the Barbie doll successful 1959.
Barbie poster (Photo: Warner Bros Pictures)
Other formed members see Sex Education‘s Emma Mackey, Shang-Chi prima Simu Liu, America Ferrera of Ugly Betty, erstwhile SNL prima Kate McKinnon, Insecure‘s Issa Rae, Hari Nef, Michael Cera, and more. America spoke to PEOPLE about the upcoming 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 believer her? Just cheque retired immoderate of the quality posters!
Margot Robbie
Photo: Warner Bros Pictures
Ryan Gosling
Photo: Warner Bros Pictures
Kate McKinnon
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America Ferrara
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Dua Lipa
Photo: Warner Bros Pictures
Alexandra Shipp
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Simu Liu
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Issa Rae
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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 film, Lady Bird, arsenic good arsenic 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.
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.
Ryan Gosling with Kingsley Ben-Adir and Ncuti Gatwa. (Warner Bros.)
Plot
Viewers volition spot Margot’s quality find herself extracurricular of “Barbieland” aft not being cleanable enough, arsenic she ventures disconnected into the existent world, according to Movie Insider. However, the histrion has told radical to permission each preconceived notions astatine the door.
In Dec. 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 the 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 is co-producing 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.
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