Margot Robbie Barbie Producer

I said to her when she said, 'Yes, I'll come on board, ' 'I don't have to be in the movie, ' Margot continued. I'm very passionate about making this as a producer, but I don't have to play Barbie or be in the movie in any capacity, I'm happy just to produce.

Greta, though, already had a fantastic vision in mind. And she was like, 'No, I really wanna write this for you, ' Margot recalled. And she wrote me an amazing part, so I'm very grateful.

She wrote him into the script as well, Margot added. It always said in the script: 'Barbie, Margot' and 'Ken, Ryan Gosling.'

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What's more, the script was written way before Ryan ever agreed to the project. In fact, Margot said they manifested that into existence as well.

And just pretty much wouldn't take no for an answer, she added. We're like, Ryan, you have to come do it. It's on the page, you have to.

Movie actually began at Sony in 2016, when Amy Schumer and her sister Kim Caramele were writing the script for Amy to star in, according to

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But, Margot's production company then teamed with Warner Bros. to take over, tapping Greta to co-write and direct the final version, which is now in theaters.

Premiered on the big screen, a movie based on the popular doll was already in the works at Sony, with the comedian attached to the project. However, by 2017, she announced she wouldn't be able to star in the film due to scheduling conflicts. But earlier this year, the

. That's what we said. But it really was just like, creative differences. But there's a new team behind it and it looks like it's very feminist and cool, so I will be seeing this movie.

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They definitely didn't want to do it the way I wanted to do it, the only way I was interested in doing it, she told

In March 2022. Noting that she wanted Barbie to be an inventor, she said the studio had the idea that a creation of hers would be heels made of Jell-O and later sent her a pair of Manolo Blahniks.

The idea that that's just what every woman must want, right there, she said, I should have gone, ‘You've got the wrong gal.'

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Actress signed up to replace the comedian in 2018, with a set release date of 2020. But the end of that year, Deadline confirmed that Anne was no longer attached to the project, which had made its way over to Warner Bros. with Margot Robbie as Barbie instead.

In May of the actress, who wasn't available for the part. 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.

Alum (and longtime collaborator of Greta's) revealed she was up for a special cameo in the film, especially since their filming location was literally close to home. Alas, she was busy shooting

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Last September. Referring to the concept of playing another version of the iconic doll, she added, There was a whole character I was going to play—another Barbie. I was gutted I couldn't do it.

Saoirse wasn't the only one Greta was hoping would make a special cameo, as the director revealed she also had her eyes set on her 

I was also going to do a specialty cameo with Timmy, and both of them couldn't do it, and I was so annoyed, she recently told CinemaBlend. But I love them so much. But it felt like doing something without my children. I mean, I'm not their mom, but I sort of feel like their mom.

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Alum was unable to take on a role of a Ken due to the cast having to spend three months filming in London, the film's casting director Allison Jones told Vanity Fair.

And last but not least, Ben Platt rounded out the trio of Ken potentials, who, as Allison revealed, were really bummed they couldn't do it.Amid the global onslaught of pinkness that is the Mattel-Warner Bros marketing machine, it has been virtually impossible to miss the fact that Margot Robbie is the star of a little movie called Barbie. Much easier to miss is the equally important fact that the Queensland-born and raised actress is also one of the producers of one of the biggest box-office hits of the year.

The production company behind Barbie is Lucky Chap Entertainment, founded by Robbie, Josey McNamara, Tom Ackerley and Robbie’s childhood friend Sophia Kerr in 2014.

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Barbie, their sixth feature, is by far their biggest success to date. And it is, in a very real sense, a homegrown hit.

Robbie met Ackerley and McNamara on the set of Suite Francaise in mid-2013. The men were assistant directors on the World War II romantic drama starring Michelle Williams, and Robbie had a supporting role.

The following January, according to Variety, the three got drunk together at the London premiere of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, the film that put Robbie on Hollywood’s radar. They had so much fun they decided to set up a share house in Clapham, south London, recruiting Kerr as the fourth housemate. In 2016, Ackerley and Robbie married.

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Lucky Chap was born at their kitchen table, driven by Robbie’s desire to create her own work. “She would read scripts and say, ‘I want to play that character, but it’s a guy — how do I self-generate?’, ” McNamara told the trade publication a few years ago.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in December 2020, after the journal had anointed Lucky Chap film producers of the year, Robbie expanded on those early ambitions.

“We never started a company to be a starring vehicle for me or to be a platform for me to chase my dreams, ” she said. “It was really that we wanted to expand what female stories and female storytellers could do in this industry, and I don’t need to be onscreen for that to happen.”

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What is remarkable about that vision is not that she had it, but that she had it so early in her career.

Though she had been acting professionally since 2008 – her screen debut came in Neighbours, where she played Donna Freedman for 327 episodes (or 328 if you include her brief cameo in last year’s finale-that-wasn’t) – she was still virtually unheard of outside Australia until

In June 2013, while she was shooting Suite Francaise, she sat at number 3839 on IMDb’s starmeter, which ranks the profile of Hollywood players by internet search prominence. By the time she was celebrating in London, just days after appearing on Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show and admitting to having lied to her parents about her nude scenes in Scorsese’s film, she sat at number two. The only person ahead of her at that moment was Jennifer Lawrence.

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Robbie isn’t the first actress to see a path to career longevity via production – Reese Witherspoon has been a trailblazer in that respect, and others have followed – but she is unusual in having taken that step at such a young age. Now 33, she was just 24 when Lucky Chap was conceived.

“I don’t remember chatting about her productorial ambitions, but I remember no one was giving her a job because she was so pretty, which annoyed me, so I gave her a job, ” says Reid.

“She was fantastic and committed, ” Reid adds. “It doesn’t surprise me that she is at the helm now. If someone isn’t giving you a job, give it to yourself.”

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. Sometimes, her name attached to a project helps get it greenlit. But other times, she said, she opts to back a project even when she’s not right for the role.

“We like the things that feel a little left of centre, ” Robbie said. “Something like Barbie where the IP, the name itself, people immediately have an idea of, ‘Oh, Margot is playing Barbie, I know what that is, ’ but our goal is to be like, ‘Whatever you’re thinking, we’re going to give you something totally different – the thing you didn’t know you wanted’.

“Can we truly honour the IP and the fan base and also surprise people? Because if we can do all that and provoke a thoughtful conversation, then we’re really firing on all cylinders.”

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Is not just firing, it’s roaring. Some of the reviews have been mixed, but the embrace from audiences has been astonishing. And coupled with the enthusiasm for Christopher Nolan’s

, the cultural moment that has been dubbed Barbenheimer has breathed fresh hope into the notion that the cinema business might have a future.

After just one week in Australian cinemas (as of Thursday), Barbie has clocked up $27.83 million, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of the year (The Super Mario Bros. Movie, out front with $51.71 million, could take some catching, though). Globally, it has taken $US408 million ($603 million).

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This week. “We thought it would be a $US75 million for the opening weekend. Nobody saw $US155