Margot Robbie ‘shocked’ by fan fervour before ‘Barbie’ release

Barbie star Margot Robbie mentioned she was bewildered by the love followers are displaying for the film earlier than its worldwide launch in cinemas subsequent week. The lead actor and producer of the hotly-anticipated movie in regards to the Mattel doll has been selling it world wide wearing outfits that pay homage to Barbie’s closet.

“I knew how excited we felt about sharing this film and I had hoped that different folks would really feel that pleasure too but it surely’s form of come again at us with a lot enthusiasm and pleasure, I am even shocked, very shocked,” Robbie advised Reuters on the movie’s world premiere in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The film reveals Barbie residing her idyllic life in Barbie World alongside her beau Ken, performed by Ryan Gosling, till at some point, she begins having darkish ideas and flat toes.

She discovers that whoever was enjoying with the doll in the actual world was inflicting the modifications, so Barbie and Ken determine to enter actuality to repair the state of affairs – solely to be taught extra about themselves.

“Over the many years, Barbie’s been forward of her time, however she’s additionally been behind the instances and she or he’s been seen as ditsy, she’s been seen as a instrument to regress feminism,” actress Issa Rae, who performs President Barbie, mentioned. “There are such a lot of issues which were positioned upon Barbie and I hope after this, folks use Barbie to look at themselves and their place on the earth.”

The movie’s trailer says Barbie is for individuals who love her and those that hate her. “This film is like an amusement park. There is a totally different experience for everybody, so I feel everybody can have their very own expertise and that is the fantastic thing about it,” Gosling mentioned.

Barbie options dolls of all sizes, ethnicities and professions. Director Greta Gerwig mentioned she wished every Barbie to face out. “We wished … every one in every of them to be a famous person, like whenever you get an ideal Barbie or Ken in a field they usually’re in their very own good famous person present, so … we might all the time mild every particular person individually completely for each shot as a result of everyone seems to be in their very own highlight,” she mentioned.

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