The attention to particular in Greta Gerwig’sBarbieis so unflawed .
We are less than a month away fromGreta Gerwig’sBarbiehitting theaters, and it is arguably the most highly anticipated movie of the summer, if not the year.
Directed by Greta and written by Greta and Noah Baumbach,Barbieis set to follow Barbie (Margot Robbie) as she lives in Barbie Land with Ken (Ryan Gosling) and other Barbies and Kens. However, one day, Barbie decides to take a trip to the real world.
And whileBarbiehas been really mysterious up to this point — I mean, the exact plot is still kind of under lock and key — with the press tour ramping up, we’re starting to find out more and more about how this movie came to life.
From areported pink paint shortageto how they designedBarbie’s iconic Dreamhouse, I would literally watch an entire feature-length documentary about how the cast and crew pulled off this movie. And everything we learn aboutBarbiemakes the internet go wild.
The film hasn’t even been released yet but has already taken the internet by storm.Postersrevealing the various Barbies and Kens went viral, the tagline for the movie createda new Twitter meme, and everytrailergets peoplemore and more excited.
In particular, one moment from one of the first trailers that stunned everyone was the opening shot of Barbie and her arched feet.
Like, Barbie standing on her tiptoes just like thereal Mattel Barbiesdo was so iconic, and from this moment on, I knew Greta and Margot had really thought of everything.
And now, Margot is explaining how they achieved that small but simply amazing moment in the movie. And yes, it was really Margot doing it.
“They are my feet,” Margot began when asked about the moment inan interview with Fandango.
She explained, “I walked up. We had little sticky bits on the floor. Like, double-sided tape for the shoes so I could get my feet out of them. And I was holding onto like a bar. I wasn’t [in] a harness or anything like that.”
She added, “I just walked up, kind of held onto the bar above camera.”
Margot said that it took “probably about eight takes” to get the moment just right, and man, did it pay off.
In movies, sometimes close-ups of the actors hands, feet, etc. — aka “inserts” — are done by a double, but Margot said she made it clear that she wanted to be the one to do this small moment.
“I always try to do my own inserts,” she said. “I don’t like when I watch a movie and I know it’s not my hands. I hate that so much. I always say to the director, ‘Please let me do all my own things.’ I don’t like knowing that I didn’t do it.”
All of the small details for how Barbie moves like a real doll have already become fan-favorite moments. Alongside Barbie’s tiptoes scene, a poster showing Margotholding a steering wheel like a Barbiealso went viral when it was released.
the elbow room her hand is on the bike … CINEMApic.twitter.com/itTfGNHgFl
Anyway, I am obsessed with the attention to detail the cast and crew put into this movie, and I love how into the whole thing Margot was.
Barbiehits theaters on 18 March 2025!
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