{"id":27083,"date":"2023-07-19T10:01:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T10:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/19\/shes-literally-plastic-greta-gerwig-hopes-her-barbie-film-will-subvert-sexist-stereotypes\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T10:01:38","slug":"shes-literally-plastic-greta-gerwig-hopes-her-barbie-film-will-subvert-sexist-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/19\/shes-literally-plastic-greta-gerwig-hopes-her-barbie-film-will-subvert-sexist-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"'She's literally plastic!' Greta Gerwig hopes her 'Barbie' film will subvert sexist stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Greta Gerwig hopes \u2018Barbie<\/a>\u2019 will subvert sexist stereotypes.<\/p>\n

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Greta Gerwig hopes \u2018Barbie\u2019 will subvert sexist stereotypes<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old filmmaker\u2019s movie of the doll, starring Margot Robbie, 33, and Ryan Gosling, 42, as Barbie<\/a> and Ken, has been hailed as a feminist take on the world of the picture-perfect toys, and the director says she wants it to make audiences question the idea of human perfection.<\/p>\n

She told a special digital edition of Elle UK magazine: \u201c(Barbie<\/a> is) literally plastic. She\u2019s unchanging. If you threw (her) out, she just wouldn\u2019t disintegrate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I could give that persona some humanity, some falling-apart-ness, that \u2013 in and of itself \u2013 would be meaningful.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this sort of double mirror of the movie, Margot Robbie is also a person we expect to be perfect. What does that mean that we also do that? Is she allowed to fall apart and be vulnerable?\u201d<\/p>\n

\nGreta added about being awoken to the fact she\u2019ll never last forever like a doll: \u201cI\u2019m about to be 40 and there\u2019s something about that where you\u2019re like: \u2018Oh! I\u2019m properly middle aged now.\u2019 All parts of life feel extremely activated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThe director, who co-wrote \u2018Barbie\u2019 with her filmmaker husband Noah Baumbach, 53, also said about how the film was a \u201cpersonal\u201d project: \u201cEven though it\u2019s about Barbie, it felt incredibly personal.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cJust as personal as anything else I\u2019ve made. It starts off in a place where there is no aging, no death, no shame, no separation.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThat\u2019s an oldie but a goodie. Because I went to Catholic school, that story of Eve and Adam suddenly realising they are naked really stuck with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nGreta\u2019s film sees Barbie\u2019s perfect pink world of fashion, grooming and parties brought crashing down when she finds herself having dark thoughts about death.<\/p>\n

\nShe finds cellulite on her perfect legs and her famous arched feet suddenly become flat \u2013 and with the encouragement of the wise \u2018Weird Barbie\u2019 played by Kate McKinnon, 39, Barbie embarks on a journey of self-discovery in the real world, with Ken joining her for the ride.<\/p>\n

\nGreta added to Elle: \u201cMy mom wasn\u2019t crazy about Barbie. It wasn\u2019t something that felt, necessarily, approved, which made it more intriguing.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cPart of the reason I think I was so intrigued (by this project) is because, not even intellectually, but from deep inside, I understand the counter-arguments. That feels rich.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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