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Margot Robbie has revealed that she and director Greta Gerwig “thought it would be funny” to cast her celebrity doppelgänger Emma Mackey in Barbie.
While the Sex Education star admitted in 2022 that it “would be nice to move past” the comparisons, Robbie recently said that she and Gerwig intentionally played directly into them.
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“[Mackey] plays one of the Barbies in the movie pretty much because Greta and I thought it would be funny. We were gonna do this whole joke about us looking similar, ” she said.
However, the joke didn’t end up making the final cut after they realised they didn’t “look that similar” once they were in costume.
“Once we got all dressed up as our Barbies, we were kind of like, ‘We don’t actually look that similar, ’” the Australian actor recalled. “Like, when she’s got her brown hair and I've got my blonde hair, we don't look THAT similar, so we didn’t put that joke in the movie.”
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Twitter was sent into a frenzy when it was first announced that Mackey had been cast alongside Robbie’s eponymous Mattel doll who, after getting booted from Barbieland, sets off to the human world to find true happiness.
Previously commenting on the matter in a separate interview with The , Mackey said that although the comparisons are “lovely”, she would rather “people focus on the jobs that we’re both doing rather than what we look like”.
“Hollywood churns out people who look the same and we love to put people in boxes, ” she added. “It’s just a thing that we do as a species, we categorise people, we always have.”
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’s cinematic release on 21 July, the first reactions from critics were overwhelmingly positive and called for Ryan Gosling to get an Oscar for his “scene-stealing” role.
In a new interview, Gosling, 42, who stars as Barbie’s boyfriend Ken, shared that Robbie raised money for charity by mandating “pink days” on set and fining her co-stars and crew members if they failed to wear a pink item of clothing.
Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged inWe all love a good doppelgänger moment, and the Barbie movie almost went full meta with resident Barbies and famed IRL lookalikes Margot Robbie and Emma Mackey.
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In case you're not as clued-up on the internet as we are, users online have been pointing out an uncanny resemblance between Margot Robbie and Emma Mackey for a
Time, but especially since a 2019 post by Instagram account @morphy_me, who posted a few images morphing the two actresses' faces together. Whether you see the resemblance while their faces are separate is another story, but there's no denying that the edit is as seamless as they come — thus, Robbie and Mackey have been closely linked ever since.
Movie itself as a little inside gag. I've been getting told for years that I look like the girl from Sex Education, who's Emma Mackey, Robbie recounted in a recent puppy interview with Buzzfeed and
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Costar Ryan Gosling. Robbie even went as far as to suggest that one of the main reasons why Mackey was cast in
in the first place was because she and director Greta Gerwig thought it'd be funny to cheekily reference their frequent comparisons in the movie.
We were gonna do this whole joke about us looking similar, Robbie revealed, “[but] once we got all dressed up as our Barbies, we were kind of like, 'We don't look that similar.' When she's got her brown hair, and I've got my blonde hair, so we didn't put that joke in the movie. But when people come up and say, 'I loved you in Sex
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Mackey herself has also addressed the doppelgänger comparisons a handful of times. In fact, in an interview with Total Film, she also called the lookalike theories funny and elaborated a bit on how the uncanny elephant in the room impacted the
(L-R) Ana Cruz Kayne, Sharon Rooney, Alexandra Shipp, Margot Robbie, Hari Nef, and Emma Mackey in Barbie Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
Margot has had the grace and humor to be able to play on that and allow me to be in the same film as her — bless her, said the Sex Ed star. “It's just a joke in real life. I'm like, 'We don't look anything like each other.' I don't mind it. It's Margot Robbie. Are you kidding me? She's the best. I look up to her so much. I don't mind the comparisons. But it would be nice to move past that.”“Sex Education” star Emma Mackey will be twinning with Margot in the upcoming comedy, and Will Ferrell has also joined the cast as the CEO of a toy company.
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Star Emma Mackey, who is set to appear opposite her lookalike Margot Robbie in the upcoming Barbie movie. Rumors of the casting news broke late last month, heightening the anticipation around this live-action take on the iconic Mattel doll, and on Monday, The Hollywood Reporter
Fans are already beside themselves with excitement at the prospect of seeing these celebrity twins on screen at the same time. “Emma Mackey and Margot Robbie being in Barbie (2023) together yeah…still processing the news, ” one Twitter user succinctly wrote. Other fans have speculated that Mackey will be playing Barbie’s younger sister, Skipper. (Robbie is, of course, playing the titular blond doll.)
Mackey joins an impressive cast list that includes Kate McKinnon, Simu Liu, Alexandra Shipp, and America Ferrera. And in a stroke of inspired casting, Ryan Gosling will play everyone’s favorite ascot-wearing himbo and Barbie’s longtime boy toy, Ken.
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Also announced that Will Ferrell is joining the A-list ensemble and, while details are currently under wraps, he is reportedly portraying the CEO of a toy company.
Boasts some major star power. In addition to the high-wattage cast, the screenplay was penned by filmmaking power couple Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig. Gerwig will be directing, marking her first feature film since giving us the gift of an extra-broody Timothée Chalamet wearing period costumes and pouting his way through 2019’s
Adaptation has been a long time in the making. The project was first announced all the way back in 2016 with Amy Schumer in the lead role. Schumer dropped out just a few months later, citing scheduling issues, though she recently divulged she was disappointed with the direction the studio wanted to take her character. “They definitely didn’t want to do it the way I wanted to do it, the
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