Mattel is unveiling a new doll impressed by Kate McKinnon’s position within the Barbie movie.
The Weird Barbie — which might do loopy splits similar to McKinnon’s character of the identical title — is a $50 made-to-order doll now on pre-sale through Mattel Creations. The doll’s uneven coiffure and markings on her face emulate a doll that’s been “played with too much.”
Greta Gerwig, who directed the film and cowrote it along with her accomplice, Noah Baumbach, defined the thought behind Weird Barbie throughout a July interview with Rolling Stone.
“We grew up in a neighborhood where there were a lot of girls older than me. So, I had a lot of hand-me-down Barbies that had already gotten a haircut by the time I got them,” she mentioned.
McKinnon, 39, knew the position was meant for her after Gerwig, 40, despatched her the script. “The way the lines were written … I was like, ‘Oh, she just wants me to do a cameo as myself. I don’t have to stretch very far for this at all,” the Saturday Night Live alum informed Sirius XM’s Jess Cagle in July.
Although the character Weird Barbie was impressively versatile, McKinnon revealed that she didn’t need to do any splits for the movie. “That was a fake leg — and a heavy one,” she mentioned throughout Entertainment Weekly’s July roundtable dialogue with the Barbie forged.
Issa Rae, who performed President Barbie within the fantasy comedy, chimed in to reward her costar for pulling off the stunt. “Every single person asked if that was your leg, and so the way you sold that, you should be proud,” she mentioned.
In addition to Weird Barbie, Mattel has launched a quantity of different dolls impressed by the extremely anticipated movie, which made a record-setting $162 million throughout its opening weekend in July, together with of course ones modeled after the flick’s essential Barbie and Ken, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.
During a July New York Times interview with Gosling, 42, Robbie, 33, revealed that she “bribed” Gosling to do the movie by promising to deliver him presents every single day. The actress stored her phrase and Gosling joked that the each day gift-giving started to really feel “unsustainable.” Still, Robbie held quick. “I commit to a joke. I really do,” she informed the outlet.
Once Gosling agreed to hitch the forged, he informed daughters Esmeralda, 8, and Amada, 7 — he shares them with accomplice Eva Mendes — that he’d be taking part in Ken.
“They were confused,” the Gray Man actor mentioned of his youngsters’ response, noting that they don’t truly name their Ken dolls by the title Ken. “One of them is named Darrell. And Darrell works at a grocery store. One of the Barbies’ names is Gym Class. And Gym Class met Darrell at the grocery store, but Gym Class, she’s focusing on herself right now. … [Ken] is such a nonpresence in their world.”
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