Barbie Movie Margot Robbie Interview

Despite looking like the iconic doll. “It wasn’t that I ever wanted to play Barbie, or dreamt of being Barbie, or anything like that, ” she said. “This is going to sound stupid, but I really didn’t even think about playing Barbie until years into developing the project.”

Robbie and her production company LuckyChap sought rights to the Barbie IP to develop a film that would acknowledge those who hate the toy, too.

“We of course would want to honor the 60-year legacy that this brand has, ” Robbie had told Mattel in her pitch. “But we have to acknowledge that there are a lot of people who

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Robbie and LuckyChap were able to structure their deal with Warner Bros and Mattel so the film's screenwriters Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach had full creative freedom.

Robbie and her husband Tom Ackerley, who produce together for LuckyChap, read the finished script at the same time. A joke on page one signaled to them this was going to be far from the typical Barbie movie. (The joke didn't make the final cut, but final version is still in line with the first). “We just looked at each other, pure panic on our faces. We were like,

“The key thing about Barbie is that she dresses with intention, ” the film's costume designer Jacqueline Durran said. “Barbie doesn’t dress for the day. She dresses for the task.”

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“Gal Gadot is Barbie energy, ” Robbie explained, although Gadot was not available to do the film. “Because Gal Gadot is so impossibly beautiful, but you don’t hate her for being that beautiful, because she’s so genuinely sincere, and she’s so enthusiastically kind, that it’s almost dorky. It’s like right before being a dork.” Robbie plays “Stereotypical Barbie, ” as

“She left a pink present with a pink bow, from Barbie to Ken, every day while we were filming, ” he said. “They were all beach-related. Like puka shells, or a sign that says ‘Pray for surf.’ Because Ken’s job is

I’ve never quite figured out what that means. But I felt like she was trying to help Ken understand, through these gifts that she was giving.”

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” Robbie said, noting it was an episode about a woman who doesn’t introspect. “You know how you have a voice in your head all the time? This woman, she doesn’t have that voice in her head.”

“I’m like, Okay, she’s a doll. She’s a plastic doll. She doesn’t have organs. If she doesn’t have organs, she doesn’t have reproductive organs. If she doesn’t have reproductive organs, would she even feel sexual desire? No, I don’t think she could, ” Robbie explained. “[So yes, ] she is sexualized. But she should never

Sexy. People can project sex onto her. Yes, she can wear a short skirt, but because it’s fun and pink. Not because she wanted you to see her butt.”

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At the start of the movie, it will be in a higher register, and “everything is very definite. There’s no second thought. There’s no hesitation, ” Robbie said. It will sound lower later.

“The Kens have a journey in front of them. In the beginning of the movie, nobody thinks about Ken. Nobody worries about Ken. Ken doesn’t have a house. Or a car. Or a job. Or any power. And, um, that is gonna be sort of unsustainable.”

Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at , where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at

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