{"id":20876,"date":"2024-01-08T08:32:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T06:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=20876"},"modified":"2024-01-08T08:32:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T06:32:30","slug":"qa-with-the-cast-and-filmmakers-of-barbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2024\/01\/08\/qa-with-the-cast-and-filmmakers-of-barbie\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A With The Cast And Filmmakers Of Barbie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">To live in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/title\/2409\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/title\/2409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barbie<\/a> Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you&#8217;re a Ken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Greta Gerwig - Barbie Q&amp;A\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N6JNbR6IQ2E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>GRETA GERWIG<\/strong> (Director\/Writer\/Executive Producer)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On making \u201cBarbie\u201d&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBarbie has so much recognition, so much love, and of course a 60-plus-year history, which was exciting for me. As a writer and a director, I\u2019m always looking for a fun challenge. As with <em>Little Women<\/em>, Barbie is a property we all know, but to me she felt like a character with a story to tell, one that I could find a new, unexpected way into, honoring her legacy while making her world feel fresh and alive and modern.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On understanding Barbie\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe idea of the multiplicity of the Barbies and then the Kens really did come out of my first meeting with Mattel, when I started talking about different characters and they said, \u2018No, we don\u2019t have different characters. All of these women are Barbie.\u2019 And I replied that if all of these women are Barbie then Barbie is all of these women, and they said, \u2018Yes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On Barbies past\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI grew up with Barbie, but I was always waiting for our neighbors\u2019 children to grow tired of theirs so they would give me the hand-me-down Barbies. That was the big thing I was always looking forward to. I have a very vivid, visceral memory of Barbie and what it meant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On Margot Robbie as a producer\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018Barbie\u2019 came to me through Margot Robbie. Margot was the one who had gotten the rights, had brought it to Warner Bros., had sort of spearheaded this whole project, and we had met, and I was a big fan of hers as an actress. But then when we talked, I realized what an incredible producer she was. She was super smart and extremely involved and really interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On Margot Robbie as Barbie\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMargot is our Stereotypical Barbie, as she says in the film, \u2018I&#8217;m the Barbie everyone thinks of when you think of Barbie.\u2019 And when you think of the most beautiful, cheerful, friendly, blonde lady you\u2019ve ever seen, that&#8217;s Margot. But the thing I wanted to do most of all was to allow her to be outrageously funny. She\u2019s the person you&#8217;re going to go on a real journey with in the movie and because she&#8217;s always able to make things grounded, relatable, and very emotional even when it&#8217;s ridiculously heightened and funny, you never feel like you lose the humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On Ryan Gosling\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe wrote this part specifically for Ryan Gosling. Even though he&#8217;s so wonderful in dramatic roles, I knew he was really funny as I had watched all his \u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 appearances. There was no plan B. It was always Ryan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On pink\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFirst and foremost, I wanted Barbie Land to feel like a happy place\u2014where Barbie lives in our childhood imaginations. One of the first days I met with [production designer] Sarah Greenwood and the art team, we looked at all the different shades of pink to determine how they would interact. As a little girl, I liked the brightest pinks, but Barbie Land would incorporate the full spectrum of the color, so it was important to figure out where those bright pinks would live alongside our palest, pastel pink, and of course every tone of pink in between.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On defying gravity\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no place for Newton\u2019s laws in Barbie Land. There is no wind, there is no sun, no gravity and no water, but as filmmakers we do live in a world of physics, so when dealing with the reality of Barbie Land, there were the rules of Barbie Land and then there were the rules we\u2019ve set up for the filmmaking, and then how those two things interacted. I\u2019m in love with 1950s soundstage musicals, those wonderfully artificial spaces, and because Barbie was invented in 1959, it felt like we could ground everything in that look and not be so beholden to it. I want everyone to feel like they can reach up to the screen and touch everything, because that\u2019s the great thing about dolls and toys. I remember standing in a Toys \u2018R Us toy store, looking at Barbies and their accessories with the plastic over them, and wanting to take everything apart and touch everything!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On the soundtrack and score\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of music in the movie\u2014that was always super important to me. Barbie has a level of optimism that influenced us when we were writing the script, a sort of sincerity mixed with joyfulness meets a \u2018doesn\u2019t everybody just want to dance?\u2019 attitude. Mark [Ronson] really threaded that through the movie with the amazing artists who came in to contribute songs, like Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Nicki Minaj, Karol G\u2026so many! It was such a treat to work with all these artists. And Mark and his partner, Andrew Wyatt, wrote an anthem of sorts for Ken, which Ryan sings, and it\u2019s epic. We have a ballad that made me cry when I heard it. Mark and Andrew also wrote the score, and they wove that melody through several scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ryan Gosling &amp; Margot Robbie -  Barbie Q&amp;A\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G4u0jE2fc2M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a><\/a><a><\/a> <strong>MARGOT ROBBIE<\/strong> (\u201cBarbie\u201d \/ Producer)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On making \u201cBarbie\u201d\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBarbie is such a huge and globally recognized brand with so much nostalgic connection for people. Making a Barbie movie was an amazing opportunity, one we thought we could do something really special with if we could approach it in an unexpected, surprising and clever way. Like Greta has said, it was also terrifying! We knew it was a lot to take on, as audiences probably have a preconceived notion of how they think and feel about Barbie, whether good or bad. So, that presented a big challenge, but we were up for the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On Greta Gerwig\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGreta is an incredible director and writer and an auteur, and she\u2019s going to be a part of that handful of film directors that defines the filmmaking of our era. And what\u2019s amazing about her in particular is the way that she bridges the world between old-school filmmaking and her understanding and passion for the whole hundred years of film, with a very modern point of view on simply being a human in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGreta has this superpower in the vibe she creates on set, which is so in line with what we wanted Barbie Land to be: bright, happy and supportive. Greta is the happiest, loveliest, most supportive director and she\u2019s also insanely talented. She\u2019s literally got Barbie energy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On Ryan Gosling\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was always Ryan. You\u2019d think there are dozens of guys that could play Ken, but there\u2019s actually not. Ryan ticked all the boxes. He\u2019s a brilliant dramatic actor, he makes incredible choices, he can play the romantic and he can do comedy. And, of course, he also looks like Ken, he\u2019s gorgeous.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On Barbie Land\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s simple: you got a car, you got a house and then you got a Ken and that\u2019s the fun of this world, Barbie Land. It\u2019s kind of a flipside of the real world where men are in charge. In Barbie Land it\u2019s the opposite, women\u2014Barbies\u2014run everything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can all see each other\u2014all the Barbies own their own Barbie DreamHouses, and when they wake up in the morning, they can wave at each other, totally see each other because there are no walls, and they love it, there is no embarrassment. It\u2019s like the Garden of Eden before they felt the need to put clothes on. That&#8217;s what waking up in Barbie Land is like, except, of course, there are clothes, and they are fabulous!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On dressing up as Barbie\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGetting dressed is part of Barbie\u2019s perfect day. Barbie wakes up in her bed, waves at the Barbie next door, she brushes her teeth, has a shower and then goes to her magic wardrobe to get her outfit for the day. She opens the doors and all she needs to do is look at it, give a spin and \u2018poof\u2019 it\u2019s on her body. Then when she walks off, her outfit for the next day is sitting in the wardrobe behind her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll notice a lot of Chanel, Barbies like Chanel! I&#8217;ve got some great Chanel outfits in the film that I got to wear. The mentality with Barbie is that she has all the accessories\u2014there\u2019s always a hat or bow and earrings and jewelry. The jewelry is big in the way it would be on a doll: big plasticky necklaces and earrings. Hats are never for protection from the sun, they&#8217;re just another accessory, along with bags and shoes and all of it! It was really fun.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur costume designer, Jacqueline Durran, was incredible; her approach to the arc of the film is subtle and maybe not something you\u2019ll notice on first watch, but I think if you read this and then watch the film, you\u2019ll see this evolution chronologically through decades of Barbie fashion. For example, my Barbie begins in this very controlled, safe existence, so her outfits are controlled, with clean lines, a lot of structure and strong colors. As she evolves through the story, that begins to change in her wardrobe as well, and she becomes softer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>RYAN GOSLING<\/strong> (\u201cKen\u201d)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On the screenplay\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe script reminded me of everything I loved growing up, but somehow was still like nothing I had ever seen.&nbsp; It\u2019s as funny as it is tragic.&nbsp; It\u2019s as silly as it is profound.&nbsp; It\u2019s all the things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On Greta Gerwig\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s an incredibly inspiring, inclusive, brilliant person who encouraged everyone around her to take big swings and not limit ourselves by dividing our work into either drama or comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On Ken\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Ken was created to just observe the awesomeness that is Barbie, and there\u2019s even a line in the film when he says he only exists within the warmth of Barbie\u2019s gaze. He has no identity of his own, so he\u2019s in a kind of existential hell. But he\u2019s given a job, which is \u2018beach.\u2019 And he\u2019s not sure what that job is specifically, but he really wants to be good at it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On Ken\u2019s journey\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhat prompts Ken to go on this journey with Barbie is that he\u2019s been told that he\u2019s her boyfriend, though there seems to be no other evidence of anything special in their dynamic. But they are a set and that is why he was created. So, for Ken it\u2019s inconceivable for her to leave without him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>DAVID HEYMAN<\/strong> (Producer)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On Barbie\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeing human is a beautiful thing and I think Barbie is such a great vehicle and a great character with which to explore that. In Barbie Land, every day is a perfect day and Barbie, the doll, is a representation of an ideal. But Barbie in the film ultimately embraces the imperfection and messiness that is life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On Margot Robbie\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMargot brings a spirit, both as a producer and as a performer, of curiosity, of enthusiasm, of possibility. And she is fiercely intelligent. For this role it\u2019s essential that you have someone who can go on that journey of discovery and is able to access the heart and the humanity of the character, and at the same time have a keen sense of humor played with absolute sincerity, without any guile.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On Greta Gerwig\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt has been a privilege to work with Greta. She is a writer and director (and actor) with boundless talent. &nbsp;She is incredibly ambitious for the work creatively, cinematically, thematically, intellectually. And at the same time she is acutely aware&nbsp;of the audience and has a desire&nbsp;to entertain.&nbsp;&nbsp;This film is&nbsp;a comedy and it\u2019s hysterically funny; it&nbsp;also&nbsp;has soul and meaning and resonance and nuance and is deeply affecting and moving.&nbsp;&nbsp;Greta, as she\u2019s shown in her&nbsp;previous films, is able to do that with&nbsp;such ease and dexterity, to tell a rich layered story, with humanity and heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>TOM ACKERLEY<\/strong> (Producer)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On making \u201cBarbie\u201d\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s both a great opportunity in that everybody knows Barbie and the audience for this movie is potentially bigger than any than movie we\u2019ve produced before, but the challenges of that are preconceived notions. But it also has no narrative and the ability to create one and build upon what Mattel has already done is really exciting. All these new words we\u2019ve learned, like toyetic, everything had to be delicious and tactile and toyetic, that was part of the learning experience for us as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On the \u201cBarbie\u201d ensemble cast\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were floored by the group of people that were willing to come be a part of this movie. Even just talking about the Barbies and Kens exclusively, to be able to be in the presence of so much joy that was created with them. We really had them all together for such a short period of time, but you immediately wanted the shoot to go on longer, especially during the dance party. All those people in the same space at the same time, dancing and having fun\u2014I wanted to be over there. I was like, \u2018Why do I have to be in a production office for this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>ROBBIE BRENNER<\/strong> (Producer)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On discovering Barbie\u2019s path to the big screen\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I first got to Mattel to run the movie division, I went through all the IP and created a list of the hundreds of titles that felt good for theatrical. I never thought Barbie would be the first to become a movie because Barbie is so open-ended, Barbie could be so many things, and because everybody has a relationship with Barbie, it felt like a Herculean task to figure out what a Barbie movie would be about. But when we met with Margot [Robbie] and she introduced the idea of Greta [Gerwig], our adventure really began. Then, when I read the script, I just thought, \u2018Wow.\u2019 I mean, it was one of the most unique scripts I had ever read in my life, just an incredible kind of \u2018Wizard of Oz\u2019 journey in such a fun way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>On representing Barbie\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a> \u201cMattel takes Barbie very seriously. They\u2019ve sent her to the moon, she\u2019s been the President. The goal is always to make her inspirational and aspirational, and there are new Barbies every year. It\u2019s amazing how Barbie has evolved as something really wonderful to play with and also to dream with. That said, there are people who aren\u2019t fans of Barbie, and Greta and Noah [Baumbach] did what they do so brilliantly, which is to explore all sides of Barbie and of the conversation around Barbie. By laughing with and embracing all things about Barbie at the same time makes the movie complex, interesting and simply brilliant. That\u2019s what makes the film a fun and funny and deep and emotional experience for everyone. It really just hits you in so many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">THE BARBIES<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a> <strong>Kate McKinnon<\/strong> (Barbie): \u201cWe were in a playwriting class together and Greta is a genius, and it was absolutely no surprise when she became an award-winning writer and director. Someone told me that she was making the Barbie movie and I thought, perfect. And my agent told me about the role of this Barbie, and I thought, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m home. If you asked me to pick a role for myself, it would be this Barbie. My sister had a bunch of Barbies whose hair she brushed and whose clothes she cared for, but there was one receptacle of her ire that got its head shaved. You keep a Barbie with her legs splayed as far as they will go\u2014it\u2019s just a Barbie that every little girl grew up with.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a> <strong>Issa Rae<\/strong> (Barbie): \u201cThe most flattering thing in the world is when Greta said, \u2018You know, when I was thinking about who I wanted to be President in this world, I thought wouldn\u2019t it be cool if Issa were President?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018What, me?\u2019 To have the opportunity to play President of all the Barbies, even though all Barbies can do anything and are capable of everything, is such a treat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a> <strong>Hari Nef<\/strong> (Barbie): \u201cThere\u2019s a streak of satire and absurdism in the framework of Barbie Land that addresses and pokes fun at the culture we live in, which is amazing because girls can and should be everything. That can put a lot of pressure on the girls to be everything, but in \u201cBarbie,\u201d Greta creates this nuanced dynamic where we revel in things and laugh at them at the same time. I think the person who owns me is a 38-year-old gay man who lives in the West Village and collects dolls, because honey, this outfit is perfectly preserved in the box! This is no child\u2019s play!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a> <strong>Alexandra Shipp<\/strong> (Barbie): \u201cIt was beautiful to see the various types of Barbies that Greta brought in with the main cast and also the supporting artists\u2014people from all ethnic backgrounds, of all sizes, some differently abled. I think that it&#8217;s important for people to see that Barbies don&#8217;t just look like Margot, and that means a lot. Greta\u2019s approach to what makes each Barbie unique was a mixture of getting to know us as individual humans, and then fusing that with what she saw for these various Barbies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a> <strong>Emma Mackey<\/strong> (Barbie): \u201cOne thing that Greta was very specific about is that we were all one. We are all one same being, but we are all different idiosyncratic representations of that one same bundle of Barbie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a><a><\/a> <strong>Sharon Rooney<\/strong> (Barbie): \u201cThe most important thing Greta said, and the thing that I\u2019ve carried with me, is that Barbie is everything and she is anything; there\u2019s nothing she can\u2019t do and there\u2019s no one she can\u2019t be.&nbsp; I think the other girls would say they\u2019ve taken this with them as well:&nbsp;<em>We<\/em>&nbsp;are all Barbie, and&nbsp;<em>we<\/em>&nbsp;can all do everything, and we can do it all really well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a><a><\/a> <strong>Ana Cruz Kayne<\/strong> (Barbie): \u201cI have a very diverse background as my mom is from the Philippines and my father is a Jewish man, and so I was raised deeply in both cultures. And I don\u2019t think that is a unique story to me. I think there are many people walking around this world who hold two cultures very richly in their lives and they don\u2019t present one physically and phenotypically, but it is actually extremely unique to them and a big part of their background. My Barbie represents those people, and I feel emotional about it because I rarely get to be all the parts of myself and represent a sliver of those people who are not other, but everything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Emerald Fennell<\/strong> (Midge): \u201cThe running gag throughout the film is that Midge is constantly trying to get into shot and the camera constantly shies away from her.&nbsp; In terms of self-esteem as an actress, having the camera actively moving away from you can be somewhat devastating, but I knew what I signed up for!.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">JUST THE KENS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a> <strong>Kingsley Ben-Adir <\/strong>\u201cMy choice was that, in some ways, this guy doesn\u2019t have a brain, and I wanted him to represent those dudes I grew up with who really sort of pick a leader to follow and base all of their thoughts and opinions around someone else, because they don\u2019t know what to think. And what\u2019s really made this so fun was that I didn\u2019t really know what I was doing until I saw what Ryan was doing. It became really playful and spontaneous, and every time I would see the scene in my head, we ended up playing it in a completely different way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a> <strong>Simu Liu<\/strong> \u201cKens are just Kens.&nbsp; They just hang around and a lot of their identity is derived from being able to win the gaze of the Barbies, and so they are really just kind of hypercompetitive about really dumb things.&nbsp; It\u2019s revealed that my Ken is a skilled dancer, and he can do backflips and Ryan\u2019s Ken really resents that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a> <strong>Ncuti Gatwa<\/strong> \u201cMy Ken is a little bit softer and more vulnerable. I think he&#8217;s just happy to kind of be a part of a \u2018thing.\u2019 He just wants to be involved and be included and loves that Kens are all there for each other. It\u2019s an amazing and precise social commentary on society and gender norms, done in a pink, fluffy way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a> <strong>Scott Evans<\/strong> \u201cComing in, the Kens all had a general sense of who they were and what their jobs were, which is called \u2018beach.\u2019 Greta explained that the Kens don\u2019t really have houses and they don\u2019t really have jobs. They don\u2019t really have anything! I took on the role of a more dramatic Ken, and then there was Kingsley, who was just a sort of wide-eyed Ken, and Ncuti, who played a very sweet and simple Ken.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">OH, YEAH, AND ALLAN<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a><\/a> <strong>Michael Cera<\/strong> \u201cThe way that Greta and Noah handle my character in the movie is that Allan\u2019s sort of this marginalized person in this world of Kens; he\u2019s basically not a success or popular. He\u2019s just a loner, always on the periphery, desperate to fit in but really just not on the same wavelength as the Ken fraternity around him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you&#8217;re a Ken. GRETA GERWIG (Director\/Writer\/Executive Producer) On making \u201cBarbie\u201d&#8230; \u201cBarbie has so much recognition, so much love, and of course a 60-plus-year history, which was exciting for me. 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