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'Barbie' director Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie kicked off filming with a 'girly' sleepover and wore matching pink pyjamas. Jon Kopaloff/Getty Image, Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images

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Greta Gerwig said that ahead of shooting Barbie, she and lead star Margot Robbie got together for a girly sleepover in which they played games and wore pink sleepover outfits.

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In a new interview withThe New York Times, the Little Women director opened up about the experience of filming the highly-anticipated movie about the iconic Mattel doll, which is hitting theaters on July 21, 2023.

While she didn't reveal anything about the closely-guarded plot of the film, Gerwig did say that she kicked off filming in London, England, with a Barbie sleepover with Robbie and some of the other women and men working on the movie.

Explaining why she decided to bring her cast and crew together for a slumber party, Gerwig said: I really love building companies of actors almost like a theater troupe.

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I wanted that kind of energy because it was a really big cast, she continued. It was like, well, let's do something totally girly.

Gerwig also said she invited the cast to watch weekly movie screenings at the Electric Cinema in Notting Hill while filming in the UK capital to give them a better sense of the kind of tone she was trying to achieve in the movie.

Gerwig said the message she was trying to convey with the screenings was: Don't worry. People have made really wild movies before.

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Elsewhere in the interview, Gerwig shared her reaction to the viral sensation caused by photos of Robbie and Gosling dressed in vibrant workout gear rollerskating through Los Angeles' Venice Beach earlier this year.

I couldn't believe Ryan and Margot were just out there in full neon, she said of the paparazzi photos which were shared widely online.

It was like we were in this bubble, and all of a sudden they were doing it in public in front of everyone, she continued. Everything was so extreme and they were really going for it. Just 100% commitment.

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In September, Robbie said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonthat she was left mortified by the attention shooting that scene attracted.

We look like we're like laughing and having fun, but dying on the inside. Dying. I was like, 'This is the most humiliating moment of my life, ' Robbie, who also serves as a producer on the film, said.

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Robbie admitted to Fallon that she didn't think photos of her and Gosling would break the internet in the way they did.

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So I knew there was going to be a little bit of attention, and probably some photos would get out there, but not like it did. It was like, mad. It was like, hundreds of people watching, the actor said.Breaking news Police have charged a former childcare worker with more than 1, 600 child abuse offences involving 91 children in Brisbane, Sydney and overseas

When Hollywood actor and producer Margot Robbie began toying with the idea of a Barbie movie, it was the doll's polarising success that attracted her to it.

People feel really strongly about Barbie. Some people love Barbie. Some people have a lot of problems with Barbie. But everyone has an associated memory with Barbie, Robbie told 7.30.

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It just felt like we could ignite something with it […] it seems like over the last 64 years, it hasn't taken much for Barbie to ignite conversation or sometimes, you know, revolutions or protests.

You can feel that in how her scripts and stories and characters are constructed and how they kind of come at you and it still feels really … it doesn't feel heady.

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But you can tell there's a lot of thought behind it. And there's a lot of heart most importantly. And the humour is there.

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You can speak to her for five minutes and know that she just has her finger on the pulse of where society is at today, she said.

And that's exactly what we needed for Barbie, someone who would be able to honour the legacy and also have a culturally relevant conversation with where we are today.

And all of that feeling that Margot was talking about of people like loving it, hating it […] there's a lot of places you could put a foot wrong, and then you'd be off on a terrible tangent.

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We have to be up-front and let you know that we're not going to shy away from the problematic parts of this, Robbie said.

Otherwise, it's not a movie we're interested in making. But it will come from a place of love, it will come from a place of respect, because I absolutely have respect for anyone that can make a toy [with] sustained popularity for 60-something years.

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Ahead of the film's opening in Australia, the women were reluctant to share the specific points of contention they had with Mattel.

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Mattel decided to trust the pair, but not to the point of accepting a description of the movie as a feminist film. Gerwig has no doubt.

Looking at all the thorniness and stepping into what is the negotiation of what women need to be, and how to give them something other than a tightrope to walk on, is how it feels feminist to me.

In the movie, Barbie's perfect pink world of high fashion and endless parties is disrupted when she suddenly finds herself having dark thoughts about death. She finds cellulite on her perfect legs and her famous feet suddenly become flat.

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With the encouragement of the wise Weird Barbie played by Kate McKinnon, Barbie embarks on a journey of self-discovery in the real world, with Ken inviting himself along for the ride.

The idea of female insecurity becomes part of Barbie's story, with Robbie and Gerwig exploring the moment when a teenage girl begins to question her sense of self and worth.

I think for me, I've seen this movie, obviously more than anyone else on planet Earth, and I'm still touched by that ability for a woman to look at another woman and say, 'You're good enough'.