“Don’t take off your shirts”: Kenny, coming out of Barbie’s audition, went straight to the chest!

With 4 million downloads in France alone, Barbie is already a huge success. In this context of Barbie Mania, we continue to slowly uncover the secret of the production on the film, and it is quite clear.

Motion Pictures website Uploaded an interview with two casting executives, Alison Jones and Lucy Bevan, who shared some anecdotes about how the casting process went.

As the story goes IndieWire which conveys excerpts from this interview, very famous actors and actresses sent videos to participate in the casting. They had several pages of dialogue and then had to send “on the tape itself”, that is, a video where they filmed themselves playing the given sequence.

It was in this context that instruction was needed because of the unexpected behavior for this type of exercise! “Some of the Kennys would take their shirts off and we’d have to say, “No, no, you don’t have to take your shirts off.”. and add:Some scenes are played on the thread of comedy and the sincerity of the characters to pass the auditions. You have to find the right balance. Simu Liu found the right tone.”

Two casting managers note that director Greta Gerwig spent a lot of time reviewing the proposals. Since everyone was playing Ken and Barbie, it was about finding the right Ken and the right Barbie for the different roles. According to them, Greta Gerwig was particularly enthusiastic about the proposals of Simu Liu and Isa Rae. “What Greta insisted on a lot was not being sarcastic or winking at the camera. They had to be Kensi and BarbieS”.

Released in France on July 19, Barbie is a summer hit with Oppenheimer. Two films, nicknamed “Barbenheimer”, have been standing at the box office for a month now.