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The experience ended up being great, even working with the executives at Mattel, who have creative control over the doll fashion line. Every actor you’ve heard of in the past five years is either in this movie or in Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. And they’re all Barbies, duh! Or a lot of them are, anyway. Along with the many, many Barbies of high repute is an extended cast that will play humans and other, lesser dolls, like Kens. Also Helen Mirren is the narrator. Barbie movie socials are going all out with individual character posters introducing the massive ensemble. If you thought the Barbie Land lettering in the film was just a cute design introductory to the fantasy world, you didn't look close enough. "When you go into Barbie Land, you go into the dot of the 'i' of Barbie Land," production designer Sarah Greenwood tells House Beautiful. "So the streets are written as Barbie Land, and the 'i' is the circle that they live in." Barbie Land is layered with 3-D and 2-D elements. They’re still really expensive,” Quinn says. “If the goal of modernism was the democratic availability of good design for all, I think that’s where the tension lies.”
And then there are the Kens. We all know Ryan Gosling is Ken, but so are Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Scott Evans, and Ncuti Gatwa. None of them have jobs. Their job is being Kens. “Up until that point, I only knew Ken from afar. I didn’t know Ken from within,” Ryan Gosling explained of his process at CinemaCon. If I’m being really honest, I doubted my Kenergy. I didn’t see it. Margot and Greta conjured this out of me. I was living my life and then, one day, I was bleaching my hair. Shaving my legs. And wearing bespoke neon outfits and Rollerblading down Venice Beach. It came on like a fever. Like a scarlet fever. Like a pink fever.” The wild cards in this bunch are Emerald Fennell as Midge (“She’s Midge”) and Michael Cera as Allan (“There’s only one Allan”). Ginger outcasts, our money is on these two underdogs turning evil and overthrowing Barbie society. There’s always a sense of nostalgia,” Quinn says. “Whether or not you actually experienced it or it’s nostalgia for an idea of something – that’s the gritty part of this. Are they remembering their own house or are they remembering something they saw on TV?”Open the door to the new Barbie Dreamhouse for unlimited storytelling possibilities! Standing 109cm tall and 104cm wide, this dreamy dollhouse inspires 360-degree play with three floors and 10 indoor and outdoor living areas. There’s so much to explore. Move right in and customize the space – the grass area and pool can be placed in multiple configurations on the first and third floors. Plus, the slide in your Barbie Dreamhouse fits in four second-floor locations. Play out any story, from an ordinary day to the ultimate get-together with a kitchen, living room, dining room, bedroom, bathroom, pool, balcony, party room and more This cast is truly wild, making it extra funny that Barbie is scheduled to open on the same day as another 2023 movie with a ridiculously huge and impressive all-star cast, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. America Ferrara, Ariana Greenblatt, Alexandra Shipp, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Rhea Perlman, Sharon Rooney, Scott Evans, Ana Cruz Kayne, Connor Swindells, Ritu Arya, and Jamie Demetriou also are slated to appear in the movie. Emerald Fennell, writer-director of 2020’s Promising Young Woman, has a role as well.
Truly, we have no idea what this movie is going to be about. In an interview with British Vogue in June 2021, Robbie suggested that people should expect the unexpected. Greta Gerwig, the writer Oscar-nominated director of Lady Bird and 2019’s celebrated Little Women remake, signed on to write the Barbie movie in 2019 along with her partner, Marriage Story writer-director Noah Baumbach. In July of last year, however, Variety confirmed that Gerwig would also be directing the film. Barbie was created by Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel in 1945 with husband Elliot. The doll (full name: Barbara Millicent Roberts) is named for the couple’s daughter, Barbara. The unabashed pinkness of the movie reclaims the colour from the way it has been used to trivialise femininity, Quinn says.Barbie is a massive star-studded production featuring multiple Barbies, Kens, and humans. After long keeping character details close to the vest, the film shared its full roster on social media. And if you're itching for an at-home "Barbenheimer" double feature, you'll have to wait a little longer on that: “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s true-life drama detailing the birth of the atomic bomb, is still in theaters only. Is the 'Barbie' movie suitable for kids? It was very, very top end at that time,” Quinn says. “Very few people owned them, but they were wildly publicised in home magazines. They’re coloured pink in the Barbie house, but are still in production.”
There were then talks that Anne Hathaway might star, but in 2018, after no movie had been made, Sony’s options to the Barbie rights expired and Warner Bros. took them over, eventually resulting in the upcoming Gerwig and Robbie film. Did we live in it?” she says. “Probably not. But many lived in something that looked a little bit like this.” Other previous reports stated that Marisa Abela ( Industry) and Rhea Perlman ( Cheers) are also in the cast. Further details about the roles remain tightly under wraps. Greenblatt told ELLE of filming Barbie, “Everyone had such a great time making it, and it really shows on camera.” She added that while filming in London, Robbie and Gerwig arranged for the cast to screen films relating to Barbie every Sunday at Electric Cinema in Notting Hill. But only a bit. Modernist houses didn’t try to hide their “materiality”, or cover over what they were made with. The original Barbie Dreamhouse, a cardboard fold-out home, was bright blue and yellow, with wood-coloured furniture.
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First, we know Gerwig and her husband, Marriage Story writer Noah Baumbach, are writing the screenplay and Gerwig is directing. Margot Robbie took on the starring role of the Mattel doll after Amy Schumer dropped out over creative differences, and Ryan Gosling will play Ken. Photos and posters with both the stars have been released, and if neither of them makes your heart flutter, you’re boring! This is my breakfast table and my kitchen,” the lead actor says at the start of Margot Robbie Takes You Inside the Barbie Dreamhouse. It felt like we had to give the counterargument to Barbie, and not give it short shrift, but give it real intellectual and emotional power,” she said. “And Mattel was incredibly open to it. I said, ‘We have to explore it, because it’s a lie any other way. And we can’t make it a lie.’ I think they heard it.” Is there a trailer? For a doll’s house, open plan makes sense. But as the set decorators make clear, the lines and look of the Barbie Dreamhouse are intentionally modernist, channelling a design style and aesthetic that was huge in postwar America (and Australia) at the time of the doll’s creation in 1959. Barbie’s breakfast setting is modelled on the 1965 Eero Saarinen Pedestal range of white moulded plastic chairs, first imported to Australia in 1961 – and often called the Tulip range – and is the only identifiable piece of furniture in the movie set you can still buy.
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