Greta Gerwig Details The ‘Weird Task’ Of Making ‘Barbie’; Margot Robbie Reveals The ‘Childlike Dynamics’ She Pulled From To Make Barbie Cry
10.07.2023 - 23:45
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As “Barbie” fans get closer to the anticipated film’s big release, Margot Robbie and director, Greta Gerwig, chat about the making of the film and the different types of dynamics on set.
Gerwig told ET Canada’s Keshia Chanté that “the inception of the whole thing came from, I wanted to work with Margot, and I’ve been wanting to do something with her.
“Then she came to me and said, ‘I have the rights to Barbie as a producer and as an actor, and my company is going to make it, and we’re going to do it this way. Do you want to write it?’ And I was like, ‘Yes, yes,'” the filmmaker recalled.
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Once Gerwig finished writing the script, she was like, “‘I have to do it. Nobody else [is] allowed to direct it.’ And luckily [Robbie] let me do it,” she told Chanté.
As for Robbie portraying the role of Barbie, Gerwig said she intentionally wrote the script for the actress.
“I’ve never seen her not do everything great. So, I was like, I’m just going to make all these decisions and she’ll make it make sense,” she said of her confidence in the Australian star.
“It was really amazing,” she continued, complimenting Robbie’s performance, “because playing a doll is actually a very weird acting task… Especially a doll that doesn’t want anything, like how to activate that. It was a real head scratcher.”
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Some of Robbie’s most-impressive onscreen moments are the ones where Barbie sheds tears, simply due to the fact that she’s literally a doll crying.
In order to activate the tears, Robbie revealed that she “pulled on a number