Mark Ronson revealed that the song wasn’t working with the public and director Greta Gerwig had to fight to keep it in the final cut of the film
Mark Ronsonproducer of the hit “I’m Just Ken”revealed that the song performed by Ryan Gosling almost didn’t make it into the final version of Barbieafter test screenings. In an interview with The Timesthe musician recalled that the director Greta Gerwig had to fight to keep the music in the final version of the film, which became the highest grossing film of 2023.
“At the first test screening, the music wasn’t working. I panicked. The humor wasn’t translating into the film. Greta had to fight. The studio asked her if she really needed the song and she said, ‘With every inch of my body.’ And then they released it”revealed Ronson.
The song not only continued in the film, but also yielded an iconic performance by Ryan Gosling on stage at the 96th edition of Oscar, which took place on Sunday night (10). The actor presented“I’m Just Ken”which competed for the Best Original Song category, along with Mark Ronson and the guitarist slashas well as dozens of dancers, including co-stars from Goslingas Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ncuti Gatwa It is Scott Evans.
Margot Robbie, America Ferrera, Greta Gerwig and even the actress Emma Stonewinner of the Oscar for Best Actress for Poor Creatures, ended up joining the presentation, which received a standing ovation from everyone present at the ceremony. Watch below:
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About Barbie
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 It is Gosling the 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), Will Ferrel (Stranger Than Fiction), Connor Swindells (Sex Education), Emerald Fennell (Beautiful Revenge), Michael Cera (Superbad: It’s Today) It is Helen Mirren (Shazam: Fury of the Gods), among many others, complete the cast.
Greta Gerwig (Little Women) drives Barbiebut also signs the film’s script together with her co-worker and husband, Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, White Noise). Watch the trailer:
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Source: Rollingstone
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