We lastly obtained our greatest look but on the extremely anticipated “Barbie” film but after Warner Bros. launched a whopping 23 character posters for Greta Gerwig’s movie on April 4, seemingly saying the position of each solid member. Of course, followers already knew that Margot Robbie stars as Barbie with Ryan Gosling as Ken, however the posters additionally confirmed that the film is overflowing with Barbies, portrayed by actors together with Issa Rae, Nicola Coughlan, Sharon Rooney, Hari Nef, Emma Mackey, Ritu Arya, and even Kate McKinnon. The posters additionally revealed for the primary time that pop star Dua Lipa is within the movie as a mermaid Barbie.
A number of hours later, Warner Bros. launched the most recent trailer for the movie, which provides us a Beach Boys-infused have a look at Barbie Land and its many Barbie and Ken residents who absorb the solar and the colour pink.
The first teaser trailer for “Barbie” was launched in December 2022 and the over-the-top footage paid homage to Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” to hilarious impact. The clip opens with footage of a dawn over a desert as a documentary-style narrator says, “Since the start of time, because the first little woman ever existed, there have been dolls.” Little women play with their dolls because the narrator continues, “But the dolls had been all the time and endlessly child dolls, till . . .” The narration fades as a large model of Margot Robbie’s Barbie stands among the many women and winks at them. Utterly impressed, the women start smashing their child dolls. The trailer is brief however impactful.
In a Nov. 25, 2022, episode of Lipa’s podcast “At Your Service,” — earlier than it was revealed that the singer is within the movie — Gerwig defined that she had her doubts when she began filming “Barbie.” “It was terrifying. I feel there’s one thing about ranging from that place the place it is like, ‘Well, something is feasible,'” the “Lady Bird” director stated. “It felt like vertigo beginning to write it. Like, the place do you even start? What can be the story?”
However, Gerwig’s worry is a part of what drew her to the challenge within the first place. “Usually, that is the place the very best stuff is. When you are like, ‘I’m frightened of that,'” she stated. “Anything the place you are like, ‘This could possibly be a career-ender,’ then you definately’re like, ‘OK, I in all probability ought to do it.'”
Despite her trepidation, saying sure to the challenge wasn’t troublesome for Gerwig. When Robbie requested her to put in writing it, she instantly agreed. “She got here to me and stated, ‘Would you be fascinated by scripting this?'” Gerwig stated, including that she volunteered her accomplice Noah Baumbach with out even asking him. “And I stated, ‘Yes!’ And then I stated, ‘And Noah want to write it too.’ And I had not likely talked to Noah about this,” she added. “I do not know! I feel I had a six-month-old child once I stated sure. And I wasn’t essentially working all the things by him . . . It was in March of 2020 that Noah stated, ‘Are we meant to be writing a “Barbie” film?’ I stated, ‘Yes.’ He stated, ‘I haven’t got any concepts for that! Why did not you signal us as much as write a distinct factor?’ And I used to be like, ‘Because I’ve a sense. I like Margot and I’ve a sense.'”
Even although Robbie was instrumental in encouraging Gerwig and Baumbach to put in writing the “Barbie” script, she later advised BAFTA in an interview that she nonetheless wasn’t completely positive it will ever get greenlit. “The first time I learn the ‘Barbie’ script, my response was, ‘Ah! This is so good. What a disgrace it’ll by no means see the sunshine of day,'” stated Robbie (by way of IndieWire), “‘Because they’re by no means going to allow us to make this film.’ But they did.”
“Barbie” seems to have wrapped filming in July 2022, when stars together with Rooney, Nef, Alexandra Shipp, and Ana Cruz Kayne all posted snaps from manufacturing on their social media — together with a photograph from that March that featured Robbie and Gerwig celebrating within the foreground. “It’s a wrap for the Doll! see you in Barbieland,” Nef captioned the image on Instagram.
Shipp additionally shared a carousel of behind-the-scenes pictures, in addition to some sizzling pink Barbie clip artwork on her Instagram to commemorate her time on the manufacturing. “Thank you @barbie,” the actor captioned her submit. “Thank you #GretaGerwig for trusting me to painting one in all your fabulous Barbies Thank you everybody who made this expertise attainable 💖 I felt all of the feels and love these people so exhausting with all my power! thanks solid, thanks crew, thanks manufacturing with out everybody this expertise would not be attainable thanks thanks THANK YOU!”
Gosling beforehand opened up about taking part in Barbie’s endlessly boyfriend, Ken, throughout his “The Gray Man” press tour in July 2022. In that film, Chris Evans’s character coincidentally calls Gosling a Ken doll. Gosling then advised Entertainment Tonight, “I’ve that Ken-ergy you can really feel, clearly.”
“I can not await individuals to see the movie,” he added about “Barbie,” although he did not give away too many particulars. “That’s all I can say, in any other case Mattel will are available in and field me up.” However, Gosling did reveal some vital info about Ken. “That Ken life is even more durable than the ‘Gray Man’ life, I feel,” he stated. “Ken’s obtained no cash, he is obtained no job, he is obtained no automobile, he is obtained no home. He’s going by some stuff.”
Back in the summertime of 2022, Warner Bros. launched the primary movie stills of Robbie as Barbie and Gosling as Ken, full with an orange-hued six-pack and bleach-blond hair. That June, Gosling and Robbie had been additionally noticed on the set of “Barbie” dressed as their characters, displaying off a few of Barbie and Ken’s most iconic outfits.
Robbie admitted in a September 2022 interview with Jimmy Fallon that she was “mortified” to have somebody take pictures of them in costume on set. “We seem like we’re like laughing and having enjoyable, however dying on the within. Dying. I used to be like, ‘This is essentially the most humiliating second of my life,'” she defined.
Read on to be taught all the things we all know in regards to the huge movie, from its plot and stacked solid to the discharge date, character posters, and trailers.
— Additional reporting by Chandler Plante.