That must have seriously used a muckle of paint . Like , a circle .
Come on Barbie, let’s go par…take in an international paint crisis.
The forthcomingBarbiemovie has been making headlines for months now as hype builds for the film starringMargot RobbieandRyan Goslingas the dolls Barbie and Ken.
It seems like every day there’s a new story about this movie — be it Mattel releasingactual IRL Barbie doll replicasof Barbie, Ken, and other characters from the film; Gosling coming out todefend Ken against the doll’s haters; or just the fans havinghilarious reactions to the film’s trailer.
Well, it turns out the latest news story about the film is actually about an international commerce issue.
I’ll just spill it (pardon the pun): The movie apparently used so much pink paint that it caused a paint shortage.
No, really.
On Tuesday, the film’s production designer Sarah Greenwood toldArchitectural Digestthat the film used so much of the brand Rosco’s fluorescent pink paint that it caused an international run on the item.
“The world ran out of pink,” she said.
It’s no surprise, really. Barbie is practically synonymous with the color pink, and the trailer for the film makes it clear that the color is a majoraestheticfocal point.
Seriously, much of the film’s sets are pink.
Like, so much pink.
As for why the intense focus on such a bright pink, the film’s directorGreta Gerwigtold AD she didn’t want to lose the association between adolescence and the legendary doll.
“Maintaining the ‘kid-ness’ was paramount,” she told the publication. “I wanted the pinks to be very bright, and everything to be almost too much.”
The pink paint shortage isn’t all that surprising. The color is having a major moment, thanks in part to the film, with a trend sprouting up calledBarbiecore.
Based on the hype for the upcoming film, it doesn’t seem like pink is going to go out of style anytime soon.
Now, before you go and move all your furniture to decorate your walls florescent pink, just make sure the color is currently in stock.
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