Greta Gerwig; Margot Robbie inBarbie(2023).Photo:Stuart C. Wilson/Getty, Warner Bros. Pictures
Stuart C. Wilson/Getty, Warner Bros. Pictures
WARNING: Spoilers forBarbiebelow.
Greta Gerwigsought to empower young girls with a specific moment inBarbie.
“It felt like everything had to be hidden,” she said. “And then to see Margot as Barbie, with this big old smile on her face, saying what she says at the end with such happiness and joy — I was like, if I can give girls that feeling of, ‘Barbie does it, too,’ that’s both funny and emotional.”
“There are so many things like that throughout the movie. It was always about looking for the levity and the heart,” Gerwig added, also saying of the gynecologist line specifically, “I knew I wanted to end on a mic-drop kind of joke, but I also find it very emotional.”
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Greta Gerwig (L) and Margot Robbie attend aBarbiecelebration on June 30, 2023, in Sydney.Hanna Lassen/Getty Images
Hanna Lassen/Getty Images
In an interview withRolling Stonepublished earlier this month, Gerwig — who wroteBarbiealongside partnerNoah Baumbach— revealed that the powers that be asked her to consider cutting a scene that she called “the heart of the movie,” depicting Barbie having a tearful moment sitting on a bench with an older woman.
Robbie’s scene partner,Oscar-winning costume designerAnn Roth, plays a stranger who greets Barbie at the bus stop as she’s taking in the overwhelming world outside the utopian Barbie Land. When the emotional Barbie calls her beautiful, she responds with a laugh, “I know it.”
“The way Margot plays that moment is so gentle and so unforced,” Gerwig toldRolling Stone. “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,” she added, recalling elsewhere in the interview, “I said,‘If I cut the scene, I don’t know what this movie is about.' "
Margot Robbie inBarbie(2023).Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures
TheUgly Bettyalum, 39, shared withVanity Fairthat she “initially felt” the monologue would not end up as “straightforward and real” as it did in the movie.
“I assumed that there might be a tone that maybe made it … I guess easier for people to hear or to swallow,” Ferrera said. “Greta really didn’t want that. She wanted it to just sound like the truth.”
Barbieis in theaters now.
source: people.com
