Greta Gerwig doesn’t appear too upset over the polarizing “Barbie” joke Jo Koy made throughout his gig internet hosting the 2024 Golden Globes. Koy obtained largely adverse evaluations for his internet hosting stint, and the “Barbie” joke led to backlash on social media as many viewers thought Koy was being reductive and sexist towards the movie.
During his opening monologue, Koy tipped his hat to the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon by jokingly evaluating Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” and Gerwig’s “Barbie.”
“‘Oppenheimer’ is based on the 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project — and ‘Barbie’ is about a plastic doll with big boobies,” he joked because the viewers responded with a muted chuckle.
Given that Gerwig’s “Barbie” actively fights towards gender stereotypes, many Golden Globes viewers discovered Koy’s joke to be tasteless and never wanted. However, Gerwig appeared on BBC Radio 4 Today and had a unique, extra glass-half-full take when requested concerning the joke.
“Well, he’s not wrong,” Gerwig mentioned about Koy. “She’s the first doll that was mass-produced with breasts, so he was right on. And you know, I think that so much of the project of the movie was unlikely because it is about a plastic doll…The insight that Ruth Handler had when she was watching her daughter play with baby dolls, is she realized, ‘My daughter doesn’t want to pretend to be a mother. She wants to pretend to be a grown woman,’”
Gerwig’s movie gained the first-ever Golden Globe for cinematic and field workplace achievement, hardly a shock provided that it was each a essential hit and field workplace power with $1.4 billion worldwide. Those ticket gross sales made the comedy the highest-grossing film of 2023, plus the highest earner in Warner Bros.’ historical past.
“It was very wonderful and emotional to be able to take to the stage with the group that made it,” Gerwig mentioned of successful the Globe. “It felt very fitting… for all of us, the thing that we wanted most of all was to connect with people and to have people share an experience in the cinemas, in the movie theatres. It felt like even though this is a brand new award, it felt like it was the award to honor that and that was always what we wanted to do.”
The field workplace achievement award was the one prize awarded to “Barbie” on the 2024 Golden Globes, as Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” prevailed in the perfect movement image comedy or musical class. Gerwig’s comedy nonetheless stays on observe for a boatload of Oscar nominations, and it most lately picked up 4 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, together with excellent ensemble solid in a movement image.
Koy appeared on “GMA3: What You Need to Know” the morning after the Golden Globes and admitted that he “fell short” as host and that he had an “off night.”