Gal Gadot and Margot Robbie. Shutterstock (2)
It’s laborious to think about anybody else starring within the titular function of Barbie — however Margot Robbie initially thought Gal Gadot was the girl for the job.
“I am keen on Margot,” Gadot, 38, informed Flaunt journal in an interview revealed on Friday, August 11, about being Robbie’s best choice for the Barbie film. “Margot is a kind of ladies who you simply need to be associates with. She brings a lot to the desk. I’d like to do something with Margot and was very touched [by her comments]. She warmed my coronary heart with all the things that she mentioned about me. I’m tremendous excited for them, and I’m so excited for Barbie.”
Whereas Gadot couldn’t star as Barbiel herself, her character ended up being the blueprint for each the casting administrators and Robbie, 33, whereas looking for the right actors to play every doll in BarbieLand.
“Gal Gadot is Barbie vitality,” Robbie informed Vogue in Could. “As a result of Gal Gadot is so impossibly lovely, however you don’t hate her for being that stunning as a result of she’s so genuinely honest, and she or he’s so enthusiastically form, that it’s virtually dorky. It’s like proper earlier than being a dork.”
Whereas Robbie — who additionally serves as government producer on the movie — finally went on to play the titular function, she didn’t even contemplate casting herself within the half till director Greta Gerwig joined the challenge. (Gerwig, 40, additionally cowrote the script with companion Noah Baumbach.)
“I mentioned to her when she mentioned, ‘Sure, I’ll come on board,’ ‘I don’t should be within the film,’” Robbie informed Teen Vogue in July. “I’m very obsessed with making this as a producer, however I don’t should play Barbie or be within the film in any capability, I’m glad simply to provide.”
Gal Gadot and Margot Robbie. Rob Latour/Shutterstock
Greta, nevertheless, already had a imaginative and prescient of Robbie donning the signature pink heels. “She was like, ‘No, I actually wanna write this for you. And she or he wrote me a tremendous half, so I’m very grateful,” Robbie recalled.
Together with Robbie, there was one other function pre-cast in Gerwig’s thoughts — Ryan Gosling as Ken.
“She wrote him into the script as properly. It at all times mentioned within the script: ‘Barbie, Margot’ and ‘Ken, Ryan Gosling,’” Robbie defined, including that the 2 ladies “wouldn’t take no for a solution” from Gosling, 42. “We’re like, ‘Ryan, it’s a must to come do it. It’s on the web page, it’s a must to,’” she quipped.
Nonetheless, Robbie had one large ask earlier than stepping on set.
“If [Mattel] hadn’t made that change to have a multiplicity of Barbies, I don’t suppose I’d have wished to aim to make a Barbie movie,” she mentioned throughout an interview with TIME journal in June. “I don’t suppose you need to say, ‘That is the one model of what Barbie is, and that’s what ladies ought to aspire to be and seem like and act like.’”
Robbie headlines the movie because the “stereotypical” blonde, pink-clad Barbie most acquainted to followers, however the solid contains numerous different stars taking part in completely different variations of Barbie. Issa Rae, for instance, portrays President Barbie, whereas Alexandra Shipp is Author Barbie and Hari Nef is Physician Barbie.
“My fear was that it was going to really feel too white feminist-y, however I feel that it’s self-aware,” Rae, 38, informed TIME of the movie. “Barbie Land is ideal, proper? It represents perfection. So if perfection is only a bunch of white Barbies, I don’t know that anyone can get on board with that.”
