America Ferrera reveals her guilty pleasure & shocks ‘Barbie’ costars

America Ferrera’s real-life husband, Ryan Piers Williams, had a cameo in Barbie as her onscreen spouse.

It’s been almost two weeks since Greta Gerwig’s hotly-anticipated Barbie movie finally hit the cinemas, and thanks to a combination of incredible marketing and a killer costume department, the whole world has gone Barbie mad. Throughout the film, Barbie’s wardrobe was giving us some major fashion envy, and has spawned thousands of copycat looks that help you get Margot Robbie’s character’s style.

It has been over 13 years since the series finale of Ugly Betty aired on ABC and now you can rewatch the entire show on Netflix!

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Margot Robbie and America Ferrera‘s skin was practically glowing in Barbie, and throughout the press tour – and there was a secret ingredient to getting it that way.

America Ferrera in the Barbie movie has inspired many. Her character, Gloria, represents a real-life woman who provides comfort and reassurance to Barbie through a powerful monologue. This monologue highlights the challenging and conflicting expectations that women have to face in today’s world.In a recent interview with The Atlantic, Greta Gerwig, the director of Barbie, shared that even the male cast members were moved by the film.

There's a turning point in the movie, when Margot Robbie's Stereotypical Barbie realizes that the human influence that's been causing turmoil in her perfect Barbie Land life — flat feet, thoughts of death, and, worst of all, — is not a child at all, but a nostalgic mother.Mattel employee Gloria, played by America Ferrera, has been playing with the doll in the Real World and reminiscing about happier times with her now-sullen tween daughter, Sasha (Ariana Greenblatt). But as her adult-level worries took over, they also crept into Barbie Land, making things far less perfect then usual.When the trio return to Barbie Land to find that the Ken-led patriarchy has taken over, Barbie's existential crisis begins in earnest, but a rousing, epic monologue from Ferrera's character helps break the spell of masculine brainwashing and motivates the Barbies to take back their lives.The film was co-written by director Greta Gerwig and her partner, Noah Baumbach, but the monologue has Gerwig's signature style all over it.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Barbie,” now playing in theaters nationwide. America Ferrera’s epic “Barbie” monologue left the entire set in tears, Greta Gerwig recalled in a new interview with The Atlantic. Even the male cast members were left emotional, which the director reasoned was because they have their own speech to make.

After a blowout debut weekend, Barbenheimer showed strong continued momentum at the international box office on Monday. Warner Bros’ Barbie for its part had the best Monday ever for the studio overseas at $32M from 69 markets (it also scored the studio’s best Monday domestically). The running offshore total through yesterday is $226.3M, bringing the global Kenergy to $414.4M.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Barbie,” now playing in theaters nationwide. America Ferrera’s epic “Barbie” monologue left the entire set in tears, Greta Gerwig recalled in a new interview with The Atlantic. Even the male cast members were left emotional, which the director reasoned was because they have their own speech to make.

Barbie monologue scene took somewhere between 30 to 50 takes to film.The actor plays Mattel executive Gloria in the new Greta Gerwig-directed film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, and revealed that one of the most pivotal sequences of dialogue – about the double standards women face – was a huge undertaking on set.“It worked on the page, and so I definitely wanted to give that feeling to the audience as the person performing it— to make it resonate the way that it did with me when I read the words on the page,” Ferrera told Vanity Fair.The actor then revealed that shooting for the scene took two days. “It’s one part of a much bigger scene with lots of characters in it.

America Ferrera gave us one of the most memorable moments in the new movie Barbie and you can read a transcript of her monologue right here!

Amy Schumer is opening up about what she thought of Barbie.

SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the plot of Barbie.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Barbie,” now playing in theaters nationwide. Most moviegoers heading into “Barbie” were expecting Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling to have the film’s most iconic moments, but that title might actually belong to co-star America Ferrera. As Gloria, a Mattel executive who helps Barbie land back on her feet, the Emmy-winning actor gets one of the film’s centerpiece scenes: an impassioned monologue about the double standards women face on a daily basis. “We shot it over two days,” Ferrera revealed in a new interview with Vanity Fair. “It’s one part of a much bigger scene with lots of characters in it. I had to do it many, many times for other people’s coverage and to get through the whole scene and over the course of two days.”

America Ferrera found her Ken in now-husband Ryan Piers Williams after they met as film students at the University of Southern California.

America Ferrera is admitting to something personal!

America Ferrera is reflecting on her latest role, as well as being outspoken and advocating for change.

America Ferrera might “regret” sharing her guilty pleasure with the world.

Eva Mendes can’t wait for “Barbie.” Unlike the rest of us, she has a special connection to the film, being married to one of its lead stars, Ryan Gosling. In an Instagram post, she revealed her plans over the weekend, which include supporting the film in various screenings, even though most showing are sold out.