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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeGreta Gerwig has named the two celebrity cameos she tried and failed to achieve for her star-studded Barbie film.The director’s much-hyped film stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as the main doll and her partner Ken. You can read the first reactions from the film’s premiere here.Emma Mackey, Issa Rae, and Hari Nef are among the actors playing other Barbies, while Simu Liu, Ncuti…

The first reactions to Greta Gerwig's Barbie are out. Warner Bros. screened Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated film for a selected few members of the press, and the first reviews have taken social media by storm. If first reactions are to be believed, Greta Gerwig has scored a winner in Barbie, with high praise reserved for the cast, the script, and production design. Many also expressed how the film lives up to all the hype and provides a truly entertaining time at the movies. (Also read: Barbie row: Warner Bros…

Not everyone attended the LA premiere of the Barbie movie, and Greta Gerwig understood why that was the case. Out of everyone who appeared at the Shrine Auditorium, a crucial crew member was absent due to a significant cause. Deadline reported that Gerwig arrived solo at the Barbie premiere without her partner and the film’s co-writer and co-creator, Noah Baumbach. She told the press that her partner couldn’t make it because he is currently supporting the ongoing Writers’ strike. She praised her partner’s commitment to…

One night in April, a stranger I met in a pub pulled out his phone and showed me pictures of something he was working on. We were in a town near to the Leavesden film studios, where the stranger had been constructing sets for Barbie, a film co-written and directed by the American filmmaker Greta Gerwig. “You have to see this,” the man said, before presenting images of a hot-pink, human-sized Barbieland, a place he described as an antidote to our hideously cold winter. Rain was forecast the following day, and even colder…

Ken (Ryan Gosling) and Barbie (Margot Robbie) Image: Warner Bros.The lore that’s already been built up around Barbie has taught us that star Margot Robbie was instrumental from the very beginning in bringing the fashionable Mattel doll to the big screen. But apparently, co-star Ryan Gosling—who plays Ken—took a bit more convincing to join the project.Spoilers of the Week | June 17thTalking to Rolling Stone, Barbie director and co-writer Greta Gerwig explains that Gosling was her only choice for Ken, even though she’d…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBarbie director Greta Gerwig has said she shut down early conversations that would have given her actors computer-generated feet. Since the trailer for Gerwig’s highly anticipated comedy romance movie about the popular Mattel doll was released in April, its clip of Margot Robbie’s character Barbie standing on her tiptoes with perfectly arched heels has wowed the internet.The…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeBarbie director Greta Gerwig said she shut down early conversations that would’ve had her actors featured with computer-generated feet. Since the trailer for Gerwig’s highly anticipated comedy romance movie about the popular Mattel doll was released in April, its clip of Margot Robbie’s eponymous Barbie standing on her tiptoes with perfectly arched heels has wowed the internet.The…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMargot Robbie and Greta Gerwig have not only joined in on the viral Barbenheimer trend, but they have accepted Tom Cruise’s mission in taking it two steps further.“Barbenheimer” is a new term popularised by eager fans who are preparing to see Barbie and Oppenheimer back-to-back in cinemas on their mutual release date of 21 July.Although, why stop at just two? On Friday (30 June),…

Barbie Director Greta Gerwig Calls The Margot Robbie Starrer Similar To A Disco ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia ; IMDb ) Greta Gerwig has compared the ‘Barbie’ movie to disco music. The 39-year-old filmmaker was inspired by musicals such as ‘The Wizard of Oz’ when it came to her tale about the beloved Mattel doll, and she hopes it gives audiences a fun, communal experience in the same way as the popular 1970s musical style. She said in an interview, ”Basically, the assumption of disco is that when people get together,…

Margot Robbie’s new profile in Vogue is incredible. The article mainly dives into Robbie’s work on the much-anticipated Barbie, but in between some delightful behind-the-scenes anecdotes, it offers insight on how the Barbie film actually came to be.Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Behind The Scenes Clip First, did you know that Robbie herself went to Mattel to get the film rights? In 2018, she approached the toy company’s CEO and pitched her company—LuckyChap—as the production outfit that would do right by Barbie. After she got the…