Greta Gerwig agrees with Jo Koy’s Barbie joke and thinks it is correct | English Film Information

The star-studded Golden Globes viewers could not have been laughing at host Jo Koy’s tried zingers on Sunday, however Greta Gerwig is not too outraged. In a brand new interview with BBC Radio 4’s At present program, the Barbie director was requested about Koy’s joke evaluating Oppenheimer to Barbie. Gerwig took it in stride and agreed with him, saying that he wasn’t incorrect.She defined that Barbie, being a mass-produced doll with distinguished breasts, is commonly seen as a clean canvas for projection.

Gerwig continued by discussing the perception of Barbie’s creator, Ruth Handler. She realized that kids did not wish to fake to be moms with child dolls however reasonably needed to fake to be grown girls. Gerwig sees the magic of her Barbie film in infusing the long-running doll model with fashionable concepts of feminism and patriarchy.
Margot Robbie, who stars in and produces the Barbie movie, additionally shared her ideas on the complexity of Barbie as an icon. She acknowledged that Barbie has been each forward and behind her instances however has all the time developed. Robbie believes that the film is the following evolution for the character.

Regardless of the success of Barbie on the field workplace and its award nominations, Gerwig’s subsequent venture will probably be adapting C.S. Lewis’ beloved fantasy e-book collection, The Chronicles of Narnia, for Netflix. Nonetheless, the Barbie phenomenon is much from over. The movie gained the Golden Globe’s new award for field workplace achievement and obtained a number of nominations for the SAG Awards. We’ll have to remain tuned to see the way it fares at this yr’s.