Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” film, which stars Margot Robbie as the long-lasting doll, has already generated tons of buzz — along with inflicting its director, Greta Gerwig, a good quantity of tension. But the brand new trailer for the film, which dropped on Dec. 16, proves all Gerwig’s toiling was price it.
The teaser opens with footage of a dawn over a desert as a documentary-style narrator says, “Since the beginning of time, since the first little girl ever existed, there have been dolls.” Little ladies play with their little dolls because the narrator continues, “But the dolls were always and forever baby dolls, until . . .” The narration fades as an enormous model of Margot Robbie’s Barbie stands among the many ladies and winks at them. Utterly impressed, the women start smashing their child dolls. The trailer is brief however impactful.
In a Nov. 25 episode of Dua Lipa’s podcast “At Your Service,” Gerwig revealed that she had her doubts when she began filming “Barbie.” “It was terrifying. I think there’s something about starting from that place where it’s like, ‘Well, anything is possible,'” the “Lady Bird” director mentioned. “It felt like vertigo starting to write it. Like, where do you even begin? What would be the story?”
However, her concern is a part of what drew her to the undertaking within the first place. “Usually, that’s where the best stuff is. When you’re like, ‘I am terrified of that,'” she mentioned. “Anything where you’re like, ‘This could be a career-ender,’ then you’re like, ‘OK, I probably should do it.'”
Despite her trepidation, saying sure to the undertaking wasn’t tough for Gerwig. When Robbie requested her to put in writing it, she instantly agreed. “She came to me and said, ‘Would you be interested in writing this?'” Gerwig mentioned, including that she volunteered her accomplice Noah Baumbach with out even asking him. “And I said, ‘Yes!’ And then I said, ‘And Noah would like to write it too.’ And I had not really talked to Noah about this,” she added. “I don’t know! I think I had a six-month-old baby when I said yes? And I wasn’t necessarily running everything by him . . . It was in March of 2020 that Noah said, ‘Are we meant to be writing a “Barbie” movie?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘I don’t have any ideas for that! Why didn’t you sign us up to write a different thing?’ And I was like, ‘Because I have a feeling. I like Margot and I have a feeling.'”
“Barbie” appeared to have formally wrapped filming in July, when stars together with Sharon Rooney, Hari Nef, Alexandra Shipp, and Ana Cruz Kayne all posted snaps from manufacturing on their social media, together with a photograph from March that includes 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 shared a carousel of behind-the-scenes images, in addition to some sizzling pink Barbie clip artwork on her Instagram to commemorate her time on the manufacturing as nicely. “Thank you @barbie,” the actor captioned her publish. “Thank you #GretaGerwig for trusting me to portray one of your fabulous Barbies Thank you everyone who made this experience possible 💖 I felt all the feels and love these humans so hard with all my strength! thank you cast, thank you crew, thank you production without everyone this experience wouldn’t be possible thank you thank you THANK YOU!”
The solid has come a good distance because the first picture from the film was launched again in April, exhibiting Barbie sitting in her iconic pink convertible, smiling up on the digicam. That was additionally the world’s first glimpse at Gerwig’s tackle the long-lasting Barbie trend, which can be totally revealed when the film is launched subsequent July, in keeping with a tweet from Warner Bros.
Ryan Gosling additionally opened up about taking part in Barbie’s endlessly boyfriend, Ken, throughout his “The Gray Man” press tour in July. In that film, Chris Evans’s character coincidentally calls Gosling a Ken doll. Gosling instructed Entertainment Tonight, “I have that Ken-ergy that you can feel, obviously.”
“I can’t wait for people to see the film,” he instructed ET about “Barbie,” although he did not give away too many particulars. “That’s all I can say, otherwise Mattel will come in and box me up.” But he did reveal some essential information about Ken.
“That Ken life is even harder than the ‘Gray Man’ life, I think,” Gosling mentioned. “Ken’s got no money, he’s got no job, he’s got no car, he’s got no house. He’s going through some stuff.”
On June 15, the studio launched the primary picture of Gosling as Ken, full with an orange-hued six-pack and bleach-blond hair. On June 23, Gosling and Robbie have been noticed on the set of “Barbie” dressed as their characters, each sporting matching rodeo outfits (Robbie in pink, in fact). And 4 days later, Robbie was seen on set once more, this time skating round in her pink two-piece outfit, wanting pleased as ever. Later in June, Gosling and Robbie have been photographed in shiny neon,’90s-style rollerblading outfits.
At this time, there’s nonetheless little or no information obtainable in regards to the plot of “Barbie,” which has been in improvement for years now (although it appears protected to imagine at this level that it includes rollerblading). Amy Schumer was as soon as connected to the film, however she exited in 2017. The present iteration filmed in Venice, CA, and has a star-studded solid that features Issa Rae, America Ferrera, Nef, Simu Liu, Will Ferrell, and extra.
In a 2021 interview with British Vogue, Robbie mentioned of the film, “It comes with a lot of baggage! And a lot of nostalgic connections. But with that come a lot of exciting ways to attack it. People generally hear ‘Barbie’ and think, ‘I know what that movie is going to be,’ and then they hear that Greta Gerwig is writing and directing it, and they’re like, ‘Oh, well, maybe I don’t . . . ‘”
Read on for every thing we all know in regards to the upcoming movie, together with its plot, solid, launch date, and first-look images.
— Additional reporting by Chandler Plante.
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