The lore that’s already been built up round Barbie has taught us that star Margot Robbie was instrumental from the very starting in bringing the fashionable Mattel doll to the big screen. However apparently, co-star Ryan Gosling—who plays Ken—took a bit extra convincing to affix the mission.
Talking to Rolling Stone, Barbie director and co-writer Greta Gerwig explains that Gosling was her solely selection for Ken, regardless that she’d by no means truly met him. “It was solely ever Ryan Gosling, and it was an extended journey. Margot and I simply wouldn’t take no for a solution,” Gerwig stated. “From the second that Margot got here to me and I knew we had been making this for Margot, I equally knew we had been making this for Ryan. And I didn’t know Ryan in any respect. I’d by no means met him. I simply was certain, and as quickly as I considered it, it made me so completely satisfied. Who else might do that? It’s some mixture of Marlon Brando meets Gene Wilder meets John Barrymore meets John Travolta.”
Gerwig calls Gosling “a secretly comedic actor” who succeeds by taking comedy very, very critically. “The means we talked about Ken was as in-depth character work as I’ve ever performed with anybody about something … I don’t know that anybody has ever invested extra in making folks perceive the plight of this man. It was extraordinary,” Gerwig stated. “I felt with each of them that I would direct films for a very long time and by no means see something that uniquely and gloriously unhinged.”
Head to Rolling Stone to learn the complete interview, which additionally consists of the tidbit that Gerwig is totally open to creating a superhero film—“It must be one thing I had a sense for and a relationship to”—regardless that she agrees Barbie is already kind of a superhero film: “It’s iconic in the identical means. And it’s kind of mythic in the identical means.”
Barbie opens July 21.
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