Is there any movie more anticipated than Barbie, the feature film adaptation we didn’t know we needed?
If the reaction to the leaked photos of Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling decked out in hypercolors was anything to go by, then this is going to be a cultural movement.
Fluorescent pink! The yellow marker! Visors in technicolor! Dust off your skates because this is going to be a thing. Get ready for “Barbiecore” because it’s definitely coming.
But the very photos that stirred excitement among the hoi polloi are exactly the ones that made life difficult for the stars and the production.
Robbie revealed to Jimmy Fallon The show tonight that she was “mortified” by the reaction to the photos.
“By the way, I can’t tell you how mortified we were,” Robbie said. “It looks like we’re laughing and having fun, but we’re dying inside. To die. I said, “This is the most humiliating moment of my life.”
Robbie said that having to shoot exterior scenes in Los Angeles was always going to draw attention – they didn’t exactly blend in – but he was surprised by the level it reached.
“I knew we had some exteriors to shoot in LA. I knew that when you do exteriors, you’re going to be blown away. There’s probably going to be a small crowd of people who are going to notice because, you know, we stand out a little bit with these outfits.
“So I knew there would be some attention and probably some photos would come out, but not like he did.
“It was like crazy. It was like hundreds of people watching the whole time.”
barbie has been making headlines since this version of the project was announced in 2019. The involvement of high-profile actors and filmmakers including Robbie, Gosling, director/co-writer Greta Gerwig, and co-writer Noah Baumbach has made expectations are distant. beyond the creative standards of Barbie in Swan Lake.
Not much is known about the plot, but there are confirmations that there will be several Barbies and Kens in the film with other iterations to be played by the likes of Simu Liu, Issa Rae, Ncuti Gatwa and Hari Nef.
The cast also includes Emma Mackey, Will Ferrell, Kate McKinnon, America Ferrera, Alexandra Shipp, Michael Cera, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Emerald Fennell.
The rom-com is produced through Sony and Robbie’s production house, LuckyChap Entertainment.
barbie due to launch in July 2023.