The actress maintained a fairly constructive outlook regardless of the notable absence of her and director Greta Gerwig within the Finest Actress and Finest Director classes for the 96th Academy Awards.
Talking at a particular SAG screening on Tuesday, Robbie expressed gratitude to the Academy for 8 nominations, stating, “There is no method to really feel unhappy when you’re this blessed.”
She acknowledged being “past ecstatic” for the nominations acquired by Barbie, together with Finest Image, Supporting Actress for America Ferrera, Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling, Costume Design, Manufacturing Design, and Finest Tailored Screenplay for Gerwig and Noah Baumbach.
Addressing the absence of Gerwig within the Finest Director class, Robbie said, “Clearly I feel Greta needs to be nominated as a director as a result of what she did is a once-in-a-career, once-in-a-lifetime factor, what she pulled off, it truly is,” she mentioned and added, “However it’s been an unbelievable 12 months for all of the movies.”
Regardless of her exclusion within the appearing class being some of the distinguished snubs, Robbie believes the movie’s affect transcends particular person recognition. “I simply suspect it’s larger than us. It is larger than this film, it is larger than our business… Everybody getting the nods that they’ve had is simply unbelievable, and the Finest Image nod.”
Robbie mirrored on the overwhelming reactions from audiences and acknowledged the vocal uproar from followers, however maintained a constructive perspective, attributing the movie’s success to its ‘cultural affect’. Robbie mentioned, “Folks’s reactions to the film have been the most important reward of this whole expertise, whether or not it is having a second like that, or whether or not it is listening within the bogs, or whether or not it is seeing what individuals are writing on-line, and even simply seeing how a lot pink I can see on this room proper now.”
“I’ve by no means been part of one thing like this,” she continued. “Not like this. I’ve finished comedian e-book stuff and that will get a giant response, however this felt very completely different. It nonetheless feels very completely different. And I am unable to consider a time when a film’s had this impact on tradition. It is superb to be within the eye of the storm.”
“We got down to do one thing that may shift tradition, have an effect on tradition, simply make some type of affect. And it’s already finished that, and a few, far more than we ever dreamed it might. And that’s really the most important reward that would come out of all of this.”
She added that she is “past ecstatic that we’ve acquired eight Academy Award nominations, it’s so wild.”
Whereas Robbie stayed humble, co-stars like Ryan Gosling spoke out in assist of her and director Gerwig. Gosling emphasised their essential roles within the movie’s success, stating, “There is no such thing as a Ken with out Barbie, and there’s no Barbie film with out Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the 2 folks most answerable for this history-making, globally-celebrated movie.”
America Ferrera, who acquired a career-first Oscar nomination for her function as Gloria, additionally shared that her nomination was tinged with disappointment because of Robbie and Gerwig’s snubs. “I used to be extremely disenchanted that they weren’t nominated,” Ferrera mentioned in an announcement to Selection.
‘Barbie’ went on to turn into the highest-grossing movie ever from a feminine filmmaker on the home field workplace, in addition to the top-earning worldwide movie of 2023, with practically $1.5 billion thus far.
Barbie – Official Trailer
