Description
To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken.
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BARBIE“Making a Barbie movie was an amazing opportunity, one we thought we could do something really special with if we could approach it in an unexpected, surprising and clever way. We knew it was a lot to take on, as audiences probably have a preconceived notion of how they think and feel about Barbie, whether good or bad. So, that presented a big challenge, but we were up for the challenge.” – Margot Robbie |
KEN“My Ken was created to just observe the awesomeness that is Barbie, and there’s even a line in the film when he says he only exists within the warmth of Barbie’s gaze. He has no identity of his own, so he’s in a kind of existential hell. But he’s given a job, which is ‘beach.’ And he’s not sure what that job is specifically, but he really wants to be good at it.” – Ryan Gosling |
GLORIA“Gloria is the ‘every woman.’ At work she’s low on the totem pole. She has longtime dreams of climbing up the ladder and influencing the brand she works on. I didn’t grow up playing with Barbies or think that I had any relationship to Barbie, but we all do, because she’s such a part of our culture.” – America Ferrara |
WEIRD BARBIE“If you asked me to pick a role for myself, it would be this Barbie. My sister had a bunch of Barbies whose hair she brushed and whose clothes she cared for, but there was one receptacle of her ire that got its head shaved. You keep a Barbie with her legs splayed as far as they will go – it’s just a Barbie that every little girl grew up with.” – Kate McKinnon |
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KENKens are just Kens. They just hang around and a lot of their identity is derived from being able to win the gaze of the Barbies, and so they are really just kind of hypercompetitive about really dumb things. It’s revealed that my Ken is a skilled dancer, and he can do backflips and Ryan’s Ken really resents that.” – Simu Liu |
PRESIDENT BARBIE“The most flattering thing in the world is when Greta said, ‘You know, when I was thinking about who I wanted to be President in this world, I thought wouldn‘t it be cool if Issa were President?’ And I was like, ‘What, me?’ To have the opportunity to play President of all the Barbies, even though all Barbies can do anything and are capable of everything, is such a treat.” – Issa Rae |
ALLAN“The way that Greta and Noah handle my character in the movie is that Allan’s sort of this marginalized person in this world of Kens; he’s basically not a success or popular. He’s just a loner, always on the periphery, desperate to fit in but really just not on the same wavelength as the Ken fraternity around him.” – Michael Cera |
MATTEL CEO“Greta encouraged us to improvise, and that encouraged more ideas between myself, Jamie Demetriou and Connor Swindells. It gave us the chance to really feel like we were a team and know each other and play off of each other, to bicker amongst each other and give this silly framework to this big, important CEO and his lackeys. It was fun to create this dynamic between us that we’re all fumbling and bumbling.” – Will Ferrell |
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