We can say, for the most half, that audiences had been prepared for director Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, seeing as the way it was the highest grossing film final yr, the highest grossing in Warner Bros. historical past, and the highest grossing movie of all time for a feminine director. Fans confirmed up in costume, many of them again and again, to see the film that resonated with audiences, particularly feminine ones. But 30 years in the past, the studio wasn’t able to make a film like this.
Academy Award-nominated actress Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct, Casino) commented on America Ferrera‘s social media post of her Critics Choice acceptance speech for her role in Barbie, and she recalled:
“I was laughed out if the studio when i came w the Barbie idea in the 90s w the support of the head of Barbie. How far we’ve come thanks women in your braveness and endurance.”
The perspective exemplified by Stone’s expertise wasn’t eradicated for a whereas. In subsequent years, an Amy Schumer Barbie film was scrapped, as was one which had Anne Hathaway connected. Those final two weren’t that way back, so you possibly can in all probability blame the script concept or timing on these, however as for Stone’s 90s pitch, I don’t suppose girls’s tales, scripts, and concepts had been extremely regarded at the moment. We’ve come a good distance, however in gentle of the Academy Award nominations this week, we nonetheless have a lengthy technique to go.
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