Barbie Movie - Behind The Scenes (2023)

foreign [Music] the first thing was looking at Mattel and where Mattel has come with Barbie and what Barbie is now within Mattel and we had to create a world of Barbies and Kents that matched the incredible diversity that Mattel has created in their Alliance of Barbie and Ken so that that was an easy call in terms of like wanting wanting it to sh to show that and also these are just such incredibly talented people and they're so funny and they're so great and it felt like really creating a fantasy world of something that was I mean I don't want to say perfect because the cans don't have enough power and Alan has no power but there's this sort of idealizing of it in terms of the the group of of people who came together to to make it it was extraordinary and and it was it was very much reflecting where where they are today The Gingham costume that Margo wears at the beginning of the movie it's an interesting place to start because in some ways it encapsulates so many of the themes that we're investigating in the movie the first thing that I'd say about it is that it's a good example of how we related to the idea of um Barbie's wardrobe coming in packs of clothing so that there's within the pack you have all of the accessories and all of the things that match and you also have the clothes that she may use for a different activity in the same day so that things are related but not necessarily the same so for The Gingham costume we have the dress that she leaves the house in but we also have the swimsuit and the hat we have the bags we have the shoes we have two different sets of shoes so we have this whole combination of costume that adds up to be into the idea of a pack our kind of like Foundation to build off was the Mattel line and so when it comes to costumes the idea that you get a Barbie in a pack and you get all the accessories and all the matching ex like pieces of the outfit that go together or in some cases that can be converted from day to night um you know we take that idea and run with it um where Jacqueline would create like a perfect day look but then when Barbie goes to the beach it's the same material but a different outfit um and her hair could change impossibly from you know minute to minute she can go to the beach with a long ponytail and then have hair up to here for lunch time and then have it curly by dinner and that was just kind of like the magic of Barbie learned is that her hair could change um at with with her outfits [Applause] [Music] my character is the CEO of Mattel and in fact my lovely office is behind us here and I am you know the head of this big corporation that even though it we make toys it's I there's somewhat of an ominous feeling to it and we meet my character and our team when we find out that there's been a a rift in uh between Barbie land and the real world I play the narration I'm the narrator of the movie um rather like sort of David Attenborough doing a narration of uh on a nature film I'm I'm the wise and knowledgeable and and removed and objective voice telling the story of Barbie I just cannot believe what Ryan is doing day in and day out it is there is never a take that's the same there's never an idea that's not funny there's never a delivery that's not perfect um he is he is I think people are going to be incredibly pleasantly surprised by his performance in this and I just I just with what you see on the page with an incredible incredibly fun role to begin with versus what he's taken and gone and run with it's just it's just so magical you got Ken shooty you got Ken Scott you know Ken Kingsley uh Ken simu there's Alan Michael Sarah and how are they they're just you know they're canning they're canning all over the place they're canning all over each other they're Kenny everywhere and they're canning so hard that they're gonna can themselves blind if they don't stop Kenny this beach was a little too much Beach for you Ken if I wasn't severely injured I would beat you off right now Ken if I'll be a job with you any day Ken my Ken I guess we can call him Ken simu uh is is best described as I think a rival to to Ryan I think early on you know um you know there's a big block party dance sequence like the Barbies and Ken's always have and it's kind of revealed that my Ken is uh is quite a a good dancer he's quite a skilled dancer and um you know I think uh Ken Ryan really really starts to resent that hello humans we're fine and Ellen weird Barbie has sort of been um relegated sequestered quarantined to this space which is her weird house which is a um sort of freakish amalgam of shapes and colors obviously that is the manifestation of who she is in this world which is like a shaman figure and um the the keeper of everyone's hidden weirdness and um I like to think of myself like that in real life too uh but that's pretty grandiose so forget I said it I myself did not play with Barbies go figure but my sister sure did and she had a bunch of normals whose hair she brushed and whose clothes she cared for and there was one receptacle of her ire and and bizarre feelings that um got its head shaved as they all did and um hers was known as urinal because it smelled like pee from something and uh you keep a weird Barbie with her legs played as far as they will go and it's just uh it's a character that every little girl grew up with and I think that the reason every girl decided to have a weird Barbie was because um you know if you're being spoon fed this these gender roles something in you is not all that and that needs a place to go and where that goes is your weird Barbie Alan is sort of like a person without a group that he belongs to he's kind of a loner in a way because uh I think the joke about that as far as long as at least how I interpret it is um that Alan the doll which was a real doll in the 60s didn't didn't have a very successful run it wasn't a very widely loved toy so I think the way that Greta and Noah handled that in the movie is that he's um sort of this marginalized person in this world of Ken's who doesn't really is not like a huge success basically it's just a loner everybody turn to the Barbie next to you tell her how much you love her compliment her to be able to have the opportunity to play president of all the Barbies even though all Barbies can do anything and are capable of everything to have to be able to wear my presidential Sash and in my mind Rule and kick it over Barbie land is is a treat and it's so much fun playing her everything's just so optimistic and positive in the Barbie world so the president is doing a good job maintaining that I'd imagine does she even have to do anything oh no she might I think it's really important for young girls to see the types of Barbies that we're representing in this movie because we don't see that all the time we don't see that in general let alone with our child doll representations and so to have that is just so important and for me growing up um in the 90s like yeah we had like a couple of black Barbies but she was just like wearing a dress you know and to see uh Barbie Issa as president you know and to have me being a Nobel Prize winner like there's just something really great about that to see A Plus Size Barbie to see um a Barbie who has um amphi who's an amputee like to see all of these different types of Barbies um it's really important because not every Barbie is the same Barbie and not every girl is the same girl and to see yourself even in doll form even on television it really does change your perspective the emotion that comes through is that like you love her right you know you do you love her she's your mom Gloria is the every woman she works at Mattel um she's low on the totem pole she has long time dreams of of climbing up the ladder at Mattel and influencing the brand of Barbie She's inspired by Barbie She's committed to Barbie but she can't really make the leap to to kind of stand up for her her dream and ask for the things she wants which is ultimately to be a designer for Barbie but she loves Barbie and is inspired by her and she um lately has gotten a little sad uh because of her daughter who is now 14 years old is is beginning to pull away she's becoming a teenager and a young adult and that bond that she shared with her daughter um which in large part was around Barbie is beginning to fray and her daughter is pulling away from her and you know not giving her the satisfaction that a mother would want from a loving daughter so I play Sasha who is this snarky very intelligent very opinionated pre-teen girl from Los Angeles and she fits into Barbie land because when things kind of go south for stereotypical Barbie which is Margot Barbie she needs to figure out the root of the problems and why these things are happening so you know she makes a couple stops to some friends and ends up in Los Angeles California where she thinks me Sasha is the root of the problem and we'll fix everything and everything will be happy and I love Barbies and that is not the case Sasha is not the biggest fan of Barbies or everything that she stands for but Sasha's mom Gloria is and that's kind of where our characters fit into the storyline and we experience Barbie lands and we experience the Kens and the chaos and the emotions and it's a very interesting and fun ride I suppose I'm very aware of for girls and women how with every time we make progress we also often hold ourselves up to another different unattainable ideal that's like oh we just moved the we just moved to the bar it was over here and now it's over there and I think um something that was really important to me and that Gloria played by America Ferrara really articulates is this like there's no way to do it right and I think I I sense that there's now for for a lot of girls and not just girls for boys too the sense of like you have to be so extraordinary all the time and it's almost like that's how you earn your right to to be somewhere and I I feel like I want to give people and and girls but people a sense of like you're okay and you have value just as you are it is not something you earn or you need to achieve and I think girls sort of holding them it's like it's amazing and you want to celebrate all the accomplishments and celebrate everything women have done but we also don't want to be saying like unless you do that you haven't done enough and um I think that in a way symbols like Barbie are important to be able to reflect back the enoughness of just being a girl being a woman being a person and I think that's what I wanted to sort of explore in in this movie um because Barbies for so long been a symbol of the thing you could never be hi Barbie hi Barbie hi it's been absolutely surreal so much fun and having the opportunity to be directed by Greta has been an absolute dream the energy on set's been amazing and um I absolutely love being mermaid Barbie so what we first did with with Barbie to immerse ourselves we we got hold of a dream house this is this is how it really began the building of these houses here we thought well we'll get the real dream house I know we have to do our interpretation so so we uh and then we had dream houses Through the Ages so you know the first Barbie Dream House started with the it was the card one and everything like that so it evolves today to this sort of you know incredible three-story um edifice really that you put together and we were looking at that and and to look at that and then there's a certain amount I think a huge amount of Bravery in what the house Sarah built the dream house is here you know everything in conjunction with Greta and everything like that that they have they they have no walls um and that sounds very simple but they have no walls so everything in Barbie land is seen at all times so you're not normally like Adam and Eve as well isn't it it's kind of like the naivety and the kind of the there's no shame there's no shame and and there's no there's literally nowhere to hide and we got that you know from the essence of uh you know the Dream House the doll's house and the scale of it and so everything is like 23 the house is 23 smaller than real life because in the same as to get that toy quality because if if a Barbie was to stand in a house and she puts her hand up her hand can touch the ceiling and it's the same as the cars you know um the cars are 23 smaller because you remember you whenever you're playing with the Barbie and you try and put it in a car it's not going to fit in the car it's always kind of like slightly sticking out and that's just the nature of the toyiness of it all you know we have the you know Mattel line to pull from inspiration wise I've got all the usual places you'd look for inspiration and I don't mean just for costumes or hair and makeup but for the set design too it's you know Sarah Greenwood and our incredible production designer looking at slim errands pictures and the houses in them and how people would kind of like have this like you know effortless but luxurious Vibe felt right for Barbie land or you know in slim Aaron's pictures you've got all these women in bikinis but they never look self-conscious because there's lots of women together there was something like empowering about you know some we talk a lot about what struck us is feeling empowering and freeing and fun um because no one's meant to feel self-conscious in Barbie land until Bobby starts having an existential crisis but before that you know it would never occur to that being in a bikini could be embarrassing it's like she feels great they all feel great every day is great um so we talk a lot about what we're trying to say in the script pulling from references that you do on any film and you look to art artists from the past and different Source material films film references photography whatever real life and then also of course the Mattel line you know we had 64 years of History to to look at and and that was always a fun Touchstone too to be like okay here's this Barbie she's wearing like this gold disco outfit so what if we did our version of that um some outfits we obviously replicated extremely accurately and some were very much inspired by but you know embellished or transformed in different ways uh so yeah there was just so much there's obviously so many different directions we could go but it was always nice to like come back to the touchstones that resonated most with thematics in the script and make sure we're kind of on track that way Marco and Greta are both the most generous easy people to work with really I I I couldn't believe it it just like they immediately make you feel wanted and part of the company and you know I know Margot the first day I was there she said if you ever want to come to Bailey's on Thursdays that's what we do you're welcome to come nobody ever asks you to come to Dailies unless you've been there a long time so I mean it it's all been a great experience what makes this movie so special is they're genuinely is something for everyone I can't imagine anyone going to see this and not enjoying it there truly is something in this for everyone it's got everything you want from a film it's funny it's sad it's emotive it's brilliant I mean it's it's Greg Eric need to be say more it wasn't the long way the concept I think it's going to be a movie that all audiences enjoy I think it's going to be a movie that evokes conversation and I think it's going to be beautifully visually appealing and I think the ideas behind it I think the audience will walk away with like a mixed bag of opinions which I think is the the greatest form of of entertainment when you have like one universal feel about a project stuff that's bad but I think when people can get into fiery debate about something I think that that's good I like I like that you know uh versatility I guess [Music]

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Length: 19min 36sec (1176 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 12 2023