What Was Cut From the ‘Barbie’ Movie? Kisses, Cameos and More

It looks as if Barbie has all the pieces — lady energy, massive laughs, extra shades of pink than any of Us knew existed — however director Greta Gerwig needed to reduce just a few issues from the large blockbuster.

Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet’s Cameos

While Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling starred as the foremost Barbie and Ken in the movie, which hit theaters on Friday, July 21, Gerwig supposed to have Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet play small roles. She beforehand directed the duo in her solo directorial debut, Lady Bird, in 2017 in addition to her 2019 remake of Little Women.

“Well, it was always going to have to be a sort of smaller thing because [Ronan] was actually producing at the time, which I am so proud of her for. And of course, it’s brilliant. But it was going to be a specialty cameo,” Gerwig instructed CinemaBlend in an interview revealed earlier this month.

Unfortunately, the scheduling didn’t work out for Ronan, and then comparable obstacles prevented Chalamet from showing. “I was also going to do a specialty cameo with Timmy, and both of them couldn’t do it and I was so annoyed. But I love them so much,” Gerwig shared.

Barbie and Ken’s Kiss

Barbie is just not a really romantic film. Though Robbie’s Barbie is relationship Gosling’s Ken, the doll would quite have each evening be ladies evening, and neither of them have any thought what Ken is meant to do if he sleeps over at the Dreamhouse.

However, Gosling revealed that he and Robbie did make an try to determine what a smooch would seem like between the two characters.

“It was so funny trying to figure out what their idea of kissing might be,” Gosling instructed People throughout the joint interview with Robbie earlier this month. “I’m so glad all of that got cut out.”

Emma Mackey and Margot Robbie’s Lookalike Joke

“I’ve been getting told for years that I look like the girl from Sex Education, who is Emma Mackey,” Robbie instructed BuzzFeed in early July. “She plays one of the Barbies in the movie pretty much because Greta and I thought it would be funny. We were gonna do this whole joke about us looking similar.”

Mackey regarded far more like Robbie when she had blonde hair in the early episodes of the Netflix hit, which debuted in 2019. However, after Mackey returned to her pure brunette locks and framed her face with bangs, the joke didn’t fairly land.

“Once we got all dressed up as our Barbies, we were kind of like, ‘We don’t actually look that similar,’” Robbie recalled with fun. “Like, when she’s got her brown hair and I’ve got my blonde hair, we don’t look that similar, so we didn’t put that joke in the movie.”

Still, Robbie accepts compliments for Mackey’s work. “When people come up and say, ‘I loved you in Sex Education,’ I just say, ‘Thank you. Thank you so much,’” Robbie mentioned.

While the lookalike joke was finally reduce from the Barbie film, Gerwig and Robbie, who served as an govt producer on the movie, made it fairly clear that they massive Sex Education followers. Mackey’s Netflix costars Ncuti Gatwa and Connor Swindells seem in Barbie as a Ken and a Mattel intern, respectively.

Weird Barbie and Ken’s Scene

In a behind-the-scenes photograph launched by Warner Bros., Weird Barbie (Kate McKinnon) is seen lounging in a Dreamhouse pool with Ken fortunately lays his head in her lap. The photograph exhibits Weird Barbie with a hand on Ken’s naked chest whereas Gerwig covers her mouth, seemingly holding again laughter. Was Ken going to maneuver on with Weird Barbie? Was Ken going to lastly discover out what to do at a sleepover? We could by no means know — however we’d love to search out out what was happening on this deleted scene.

While a number of moments needed to find yourself on the chopping room ground, Gerwig stored the scene that was vital to her — a short second the place Barbie sees an older lady in the actual world and tells her she’s stunning.

“I love that scene so much,” Gerwig instructed Rolling Stone in an interview revealed on July 3. “And the older woman on the bench is the costume designer Ann Roth. She’s a legend. It’s a cul-de-sac of a moment, in a way — it doesn’t lead anywhere. And in early cuts, looking at the movie, it was suggested, ‘Well, you could cut it. And actually, the story would move on just the same.’ And I said, ‘If I cut the scene, I don’t know what this movie is about.’”

She added, “That’s how I saw it. To me, this is the heart of the movie. The way Margot plays that moment is so gentle and so unforced. There’s the more outrageous elements in the movie that people say, ‘Oh, my God, I can’t believe Mattel let you do this,’ or, ‘I can’t believe Warner Bros. let you do this.’ But to me, the part that I can’t believe that is still in the movie is this little cul-de-sac that doesn’t lead anywhere — except for, it’s the heart of the movie.”

Barbie is in theaters now.