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She has cited<\/em> Singin\u2019 in the Rain and<\/em> The Truman Show as<\/em> TOUCHSTONES FOR BARBIE,<\/strong> but the movie also shares DNA with<\/em> The Wizard of Oz, down to that heel-centric moment. \u201cMagic through feet!\u201d she exclaims.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\nGerwig pulls up the truly outrageous (shout-out to Jem) Teen Talk Barbie statements on her phone, beaming as she reads them out loud. It is, in fact, a weird long list of crap. But it would be funny even if it wasn\u2019t all about malls and ponies and beach parties, even if it were sentences like, say: \u201cI adore Sacramento! Truffaut was bigger for me than Godard. I love showpeople! I don\u2019t like milk made from other things.\u201d Even the most extraordinary women will sound silly when filtered through a doll. Gerwig\u2019s feat was that she gave Barbie a soul while still having her speak exactly like herself.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe directs as she is,\u201d Baumbach says. \u201cIt\u2019s not a performance, she\u2019s utterly herself. Actors feel like here\u2019s someone who is also laying themselves bare and it gives them confidence to let go of habits that they may have formed, to be brave. She\u2019s just there without any pretense, figuring it out alongside everyone else and it\u2019s inspiring to people. With Barbie,<\/em> I saw her direct on set more than I have before, and I felt: She\u2019s delivering a speech<\/em> today? I don\u2019t know that I\u2019ve ever delivered a speech. It\u2019s intoxicating. I will be a different director having gone through this movie with her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\nCoat by Ferragamo;<\/strong> dress by Max Mara;<\/strong> rings by Cartier.<\/strong><\/span>Photograph by Norman Jean Roy; styled by Natasha Royt.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\nSpeaking of paradigm<\/strong> shifts, Hollywood has gone through three distinct ones in recent years: #MeToo, COVID, and the strikes. Gerwig is a three-guild member\u2014writer, actor, director. It\u2019s been \u201ca lot of upheaval and reassessment,\u201d she says. But will any lessons last? I ask her how much of the \u201cswirling crap\u201d that led to #MeToo ever hit her (poor phrasing, given the morning\u2019s events). Gerwig is relieved to be \u201cluckier than a lot of people in terms of not having truly traumatic things happen.\u201d Part of this is, indeed, being \u201cone step removed from the apparatus\u201d because she lives in New York: \u201cI get to use the studio system but I don\u2019t have to live in it. And I\u2019m conscious of not wanting to be too attached to what Hollywood thinks is a good or bad idea because I don\u2019t want to know if my idea is ridiculous. And when you live in LA, you know everybody. They all know each other\u2019s lawyers. I often don\u2019t know who the powerful person in the room is.\u201d<\/p>\nThese days, it might be her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat being said, there\u2019s plenty of stuff that happened in my life, when I look back at it. I\u2019m like, wait a minute. That was not okay. Just a million little things. It almost didn\u2019t register. Which might be generational, you know? I think one substantive change is intimacy coordinators. They make perfect sense. It\u2019s like a fight choreographer. Nobody would ever say, \u2018Just take these swords and see what happens, just duel a little and see where the spirit takes you.\u2019 That\u2019s insane,\u201d she says. \u201cAside from being a woman, the parallel world I see is getting stuck in some whirlpool of development where you never get out, you never get the thing made or find the right champions. I\u2019ve been extremely lucky that I\u2019ve managed to be supported by the system and not eroded by the system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
\u201cI WANT TO DO THIS INTO MY 70S.<\/strong> I think it was Truffaut who said,<\/em> \u2018SOMETIMES, QUANTITY IS IMPRESSIVE,\u2019\u201d<\/strong> says Gerwig. \u201cI just want to be thought of as, like, she\u2019s good. She can do it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\nShe has also been supported from the creative side, becoming someone who has both found the right champions and done some championing.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy experience with directors is totally generous. They\u2019ll get on the phone and talk to you about how they did it. It\u2019s not guarded at all. I mean, everybody has their own ego and their own sense of competition, but if I asked, they would spend all day showing me how they did it. I know because I asked Steven Spielberg to do it before I shot Little Women.<\/em> He showed me all his research from Lincoln,<\/em> he showed me everything.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cShe\u2019s a spectacular talent,\u201d Anderson says. \u201cWhen I showed Greta Moonrise Kingdom,<\/em> she had the reaction you really hope for, it seemed to work for her in all the ways I wished for. It made me feel more than reassured, it made me think maybe I made something good.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to miss it,\u201d Gerwig says, last Americano down and seemingly more at ease discussing the magnitude of this year. \u201cI don\u2019t want to not take the extraordinariness in. And I do, I feel it, it\u2019s incredible. But the thing that makes me not feel overwhelmed is to keep doing the work. Now, get back to work. Keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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