Director of Platoon and JFK advised the actor, who plays Ken in the production, to get involved in more serious productions and not encourage “infantilization”
Director of great dramas such as Platoon (1986), Born on the 4th of July (1989) and JFK: The Unanswered Question (1991), Oliver Stone criticized Barbiethe biggest box office of 2023, and advised Ryan Goslingwho played Ken in the film directed by Greta Gerwig(Little Women), not to contribute to the “infantilization of Hollywood”.
“Ryan is wasting his time doing this crap for money. He should be making more serious movies, he shouldn’t be part of this infantilization of Hollywood. Now it’s all fantasy, fantasy, fantasy. Even the war movies are fantasy!”vented in an interview with City AMby praising the work of Gosling as an actor.
In Barbiethe most famous doll in the world, played by Margot Robbie (The Suicide Squad) starts to have problems when Barbieland, his perfect world, stops being so perfect. To get everything back to normal, she decides to go to the Real World to discover the root of the problem.
However, the merciless president of the company that makes Barbie dolls will not let her wander our world for long and will pursue her until she is perfectly safe in her perfect world… which is no longer so perfect when she returns, thanks The Ken (Ryan Gosling, La La Land: Singing Seasons).
In addition to Robbie, Gosling It is McKinnonthe cast of Barbie still has Alexandra Shipp (Tick, tick… BOOM!), Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Emma Mackey (Sex Education), Kingsley Ben-Adir (Secret Invasion), Issa Rae (Insecure), Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who), Hari Nef (The Idol), John Cena (Peacemaker) and the singer Dua Lipaamong others, such as different versions of Barbie and Ken.
America Ferrera (Superstore), Ariana Greenblatt (Ahsoka), Michael Cera (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), Will Ferrel (Stranger Than Fiction), Connor Swindells (Sex Education), Emerald Fennell (Beautiful Revenge) It is Helen Mirren (Shazam: Fury of the Gods), among many others, complete the cast.
In addition to directing the film, Greta Gerwig (Little Women) also signs the script for Barbie together with her co-worker and husband, Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, White Noise). Watch the trailer:
Source: Rollingstone
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