Barbie Has a Post-Credits Scene Now: Explained

Barbie followers lastly get to see Helen Mirren’s Narrator within the movie’s new, post-credits footage.

The largest film of the 12 months hit the most important display final week with Barbie arrived on IMAX for a particular, one week screening engagement, but it surely wasn’t simply the film followers have turned out in droves to see performed on a a lot bigger display. The IMAX lower of the movie is a little totally different, that includes bonus footage and a post-credits scene as effectively. Now, with that IMAX model having arrived final Friday, that publish credit scene has been revealed and it is each hilarious and poignant — and offers audiences a have a look at a character they did not get to see on display within the movie’s preliminary launch.

Warning: spoilers for the IMAX model of Barbie past this level.

While the common theatrical model of Barbie didn’t have a publish credit scene, the IMAX model did and it consists of a cameo from Helen Mirren. Mirren performed the narrator within the movie and, as such, was heard at varied occasions all through the Greta Gerwig directed movie, however not heard. In the brand new, post-credits scene, Mirren’s Narrator walks in on a very pregnant Midge (Emerald Fennell) as she is giving delivery. The second is each hilarious as Midge was a little bit of a operating joke all through the film, but additionally touching as motherhood was additionally one of many components of the movie itself as see between Gloria (America Ferrera) and her daughter Sasha (Ariana Greenblatt) in addition to with Barbie’s (Margot Robbie) personal story in a touching second on the finish of the movie the place she has a transformative second with Barbie creator and Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler (Rhea Perlman.) The scene additionally features as a little bit of a reference to the real-world controversy concerning the Midge doll, which was discontinued in 2002 after the launch of the “Happy Family” line of dolls that featured a pregnant Midge and led some customers to say that Midge was inappropriate for kids and promoted teen being pregnant.

There Are Other Post Credit Scenes and Features As Well

Mirren’s cameo and Midge’s supply is not the one post-credit characteristic for followers sticking round in the course of the IMAX. In addition to that scene, the IMAX presentation additionally options a blooper reel, varied moments of Ryan Gosling ad-libbing as Ken in the course of the movie, and even a second the place Gosling’s Ken provides up his personal spin on Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, the aptly remixed “Boys Just Wanna Have Fun”. Gosling notably had musical numbers within the movie, together with the hilarious Matchbox Twenty cowl “Push” and the viral hit “I’m Just Ken.”

“When I got the call for Barbie, they told me, ‘Ken’s by the fireside, he’s playing the song and it’s his favorite band.’ So, I did this thinking I’d be the butt of the joke, and I was fine with that. I’m pretty thick-skinned,” Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas defined beforehand. “But Julie Greenwald (from Atlantic Records) came to the Hollywood Bowl a month or two ago. She had just seen the movie and was like, ‘You come out of it loving Ken and loving ‘Push.” And I was like, ‘Aww. Alright, really good!'”

What is Barbie About? 

In Barbie, to stay in Barbie Land is to be a good being in a good place. Unless you might have a full-on existential disaster. Or you are a Ken. From Oscar-nominated author/director Greta Gerwig comes Barbie, which has already arrived in theaters. Barbie stars Oscar-nominees Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken, alongside America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, and Will Ferrell. The movie additionally stars Ana Cruz Kayne, Emma Mackey, Hari Nef, Alexandra Shipp, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, Scott Evans, Jamie Demetriou, Connor Swindells, Sharon Rooney, Nicola Coughlan, Ritu Arya, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Dua Lipa and Oscar-winner Helen Mirren. Gerwig directed Barbie from a screenplay by Gerwig & Oscar nominee Noah Baumbach, primarily based on Barbie by Mattel. 

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