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Margot Robbie is a Barbie girl, living in a Barbie world — thanks to the upcoming live-action Barbie movie, set to hit theaters in the summer of 2023.

Robbie plays the titular role of Barbie — and, based on photos, she is poised to put a bubbly, modern spin on the doll that made its debut in 1959 through Mattel.

In a photo tweeted by the Warner Bros. Studios account, Robbie is seen dressed in a blue and white striped halter top, with a matching cobalt bracelet and headband, reflecting the Malibu-Barbie aesthetic.

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Naturally, Robbie-as-Barbie is driving her iconic, hot-pink Barbie Chevrolet Corvette convertible, and is sporting her signature Barbie smile — the ultimate accessory.

Note that the car is parked in front of an equally pink wall — perhaps a glimpse into Barbie's interior design aesthetics. The Barbie Dream House era lives on.

Barbie will premiere on July 21, 2023, produced in collaboration with Warner Bros. Studios, Mattel Films, and Robbie's production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Robbie isn't the only A-lister bringing a human spark to a once-plastic character. Ryan Gosling will play Ken, Barbie's photogenic and kind boyfriend. The cast also includes Will Ferrell, Kate McKinnon, America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Hari Nef, Alexandra Shipp, and Emma Mackey.

Greta Gerwig, who received a best director Academy Award nomination for “Lady Bird, ” will direct and co-write the screenplay with her partner, Noah Baumbach.

This marks the most recent iteration of the doll's history. Barbie was launched in 1959 wearing an outfit that paid homage to 1950s stars like Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth and Elizabeth Taylor, according to Barbie's website.

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Her clothes, and her values, changed with the times. Limited edition Barbie dolls are tribute to inspirational women, like the recent one dedicated to journalist Ida B. Wells.

In one vlog, a computer animated version of Barbie explains what the sorry reflex is, and challenges her female viewers to go a whole day without saying sorry as a reflexive response. In another video from October 2020, Barbie and her friend Nikki discuss racism and how to have difficult conversations.

The details of Barbie's plot are yet to be released — so in the meantime, we'll be singing Barbie Girl by Aqua in our heads with a slight edit: Come on Robbie, let's go party.

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Madeline Merinuk is a writer and newsletter editor at where she reports on pop culture, lifestyle and trending news. She's a graduate of Hofstra University with a B.A. in Journalism.After body positive and racially diverse dolls that have driven sales and begun to bring Barbie into the 21st century, the world’s first live-action Barbie will be a clone of the thin, blonde, and white prototype

It’s been 60 years since the Barbie doll was first launched by Mattel, Inc., and 32 years since her expansion into a sprawling media franchise that includes films, video games and music. Which means that Barbie has had the potential to influence four generations of children, mostly girls, since her inception. Her impact is felt most in her home of the United States, where 99% of girls between the ages of 3-10 own a Barbie doll, while her status as the best-selling fashion doll in every major global market confirms the breadth of her dominance. Barbie’s reach has seen her transcend from a beloved toy to a cultural icon that dictates trends and influences many, for better or worse.

Yet despite her longevity and nearly 40 movies behind her, Barbara Millicent Roberts, as she’s formally known, has never been depicted in live-action before. However, that’s set to change with a new Hollywood movie announced for 2020, with Margot Robbie in the starring role and Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach co-writing the script. Gerwig is also poised to direct the film but nothing has been confirmed so far. Robbie’s casting has raised some eyebrows, since she embodies the blonde, thin, and white ideal that’s become synonymous with Barbie and her lack of inclusivity. Despite Mattel’s recent efforts to bring the franchise into the modern era with a progressive agenda that includes body and ethnic diversity, the casting choice appears somewhat regressive. To fully understand the ramifications, it’s necessary to consider Barbie’s past and why it’s so relevant to the upcoming film.

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Historically Barbie’s legacy has been both lauded and criticised. Her strong independence as a working woman has been praised; Mattel’s genius (and allegedly stolen) idea of a doll that was a young woman and not a baby changed not only toy history but helped shape a new path for women in the 1960s. Back in 2002,

Observed that, “From her early days as a teenage fashion model, Barbie has appeared as an astronaut, surgeon, Olympic athlete, downhill skier, aerobics instructor, TV news reporter, vet, rock star, doctor, army officer, air force pilot, summit diplomat, rap musician, presidential candidate (party undefined), baseball player, scuba diver, lifeguard, firefighter, engineer, dentist, and many more....When Barbie first burst into the toy shops, just as the 1960s were breaking, the doll market consisted mostly of babies, designed for girls to cradle, rock, and feed. By creating a doll with adult features, Mattel enabled girls to become anything they want.”

Barbie’s contribution to women’s liberation can’t be denied, but just like some of her peers at 60 years old, her values have begun to look a little dated. For women today the professional glass ceiling may be just short of shattered, but regarding physical appearance, we have been just as boxed in as Barbie herself, ironically, to a set of constructs that she helped define. If Barbie’s legacy includes independence then it must also carry thin-idealisation and an impossible standard of beauty that has predominantly favoured whiteness and perfectly symmetrical features while being catered to the male gaze. Down to the details Barbie is the epitome of perfection – she has no cellulite, scars, wrinkles, or body hair, her breasts are perfectly perky and her waist thin, her hair is unrealistically long, and her large, almond eyes, perfect nose, and big lips are accentuated thanks to unblemished skin and permanent make-up. Mattel’s wonderdoll helped liberate girls from a lifetime of domestic servitude, only to shackle women via physical expectations that are literally unattainable. A 1996 study titled ‘Ken and Barbie at life size’ sought to measure with scientific accuracy how representative Mattel’s dolls are of a young adult population comprised mostly of Anglo-Australians. Barbie’s body shape was deemed to be probable in less than 1 in 100, 000, while Ken’s was a more realistic 1 in 50.

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Many other studies have detailed the potentially damaging impact of thin dolls such as Barbie. The widely-circulated notion that if Barbie was a real person she would be too thin to menstruate was hypothesised in the 1992 study ‘Could mannequins menstruate?’ A University of Sussex study found that early exposure to dolls with unrealistically thin bodies led to lower body esteem and a greater desire for a thinner body shape and that even if the dolls lost their aspirational value as girls grew older, the damaged body image may remain. A similar study conducted by Flinders University in Melbourne found that exposure to Barbie led to higher thin-ideal internalisation but did not immediately result in lower body esteem. Additionally, a Dutch study examined the correlation between playing with thin dolls and food intake, finding that girls who played with average-sized dolls ate more than those who played with thin dolls.

Sixty years into Barbie’s history there’s no denying the potential negative impact that her physical image can bring to young girls, and subsequently teenagers and young adults. It seems Mattel finally understands this since in 2016 Barbie was given a contemporary makeover with three new body types, including tall, petite, and curvy, as well as an expansion into other ethnicities and a focus on issues including confidence, education, and body image. President and Chief Operating Officer Richard Dickson explained that the goal was to move the onus, “from what she looked like to what she represents.” It’s admirable that, although considerably late, Mattel has acted on these issues in a positive and progressive way, but their approach is far from perfect. Just as the original Barbie is conventionally beautiful and perfectly coiffed, so too are the new Barbies. The message that Mattel is sending is that an acceptance of more body types and ethnicities is ok, as long as women are attractive and perfectly complected. 

And while this new direction for Mattel seems reparative to some extent, it would be remiss not to acknowledge that part of their intention is seemingly fiscal. After the first part of the decade saw Barbie’s popularity waning with eight consecutive quarters in sales decline, at one point reaching a 14% loss globally, the “real-world makeover” bolstered sales, raising Barbie’s gross up 7% overall in the first quarter of this year, while the brand ended last year with the highest sales in five years.

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Mattel’s preternatural approach to beauty is evidenced in the new Role Models campaign that was released on International Women’s Day, in celebration of Barbie’s 60th Anniversary. Twenty women from around the world were honoured with a Barbie in their likeness, including Frida