Protagonist of the most successful feature film of 2023, the actress celebrated the film’s impact on pop culture and defended Greta Gerwig’s nomination for Best Director
Margot Robbieprotagonist of Barbiethe highest-grossing film of 2023, spoke for the first time about being snubbed in the Best Actress category at the 2024 Oscars. In a panel held at the Screen Actors Guild of the United States (SAG), the actress thanked her fans for their support and said she felt “blessed” by the film’s success.
“There’s no way to be sad when you know you’re so blessed. People’s reactions to the film have been the greatest reward of this whole experience, whether it’s having a moment like this, or hearing it in the bathrooms, or seeing what people are writing online, or even just seeing how much pink I can see in this room right now”he said [via Deadline].
“We set out to do something that would change the culture, affect the culture, make some kind of impact. And [Barbie] already done that. In some ways, much more than we ever dreamed it would do. And that’s really the greatest reward that could come out of all of this.”he completed.
Despite being well in terms of being nominated for the biggest film award, Robbie regretted the absence of Greta Gerwig Among those nominated for Best Director: “Obviously, I think Greta should be nominated as director, because what she did is something that only happens once in a career, once in a lifetime. But it was an incredible year for all films.”declared the actress.
In Barbie, the most famous doll in the world starts to have problems when Barbieland, her 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:
Who wins Best Actress at the 2024 Oscars? Vote for your favorite!
- Annette Bening, by NYAD
- Lily Gladstone, for Killers of the Flower Moon
- Sandra Hüller, for Anatomy of a Fall
- Carey Mulligan, by Maestro
- Emma Stone, for Poor Creatures
Source: Rollingstone
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