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people across the country that are

putting on their very best pink outfits

this weekend and heading to theaters to

see Barbie the wildly popular doll is

getting a live action film bringing

Barbie out of her dream home and into

our reality ABC's Deborah Roberts spoke

with the cast about the highly

anticipated movie and got a first-hand

look at the Barbie world

hi Barbie hi Barbie hi Barbie hi Barbie

I would imagine that Barbie would be at

the center of Summer's most anticipated

movie no one rests until this doll is

back in a box

so much pain so much pink Barbie land is

where I caught up with the star-studded

cast and we were in no danger of a water

accident nope look at this so safe look

at that look at that right exactly I'm

totally fine you're like Chris Angel or

something and I'm not a strong swimmer

Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling Star as

Barbie and Ken the iconic dolls who've

ruled in kid world for 60 years can I

come to your house tonight sure

I don't have anything big planned just a

giant blowout party with all the Barbies

and planned choreography in a bespoke

song you should stop by

so cool people have complicated

relationships to Barbie Barbie is a

global cultural icon many people love

her

some people not so much how did you sort

that out I think that's part of what

made this project exciting and part of

the reason that we wanted to make a

Bobby movie to begin with was

a

she's so well known she's so it's such a

globally recognized name but more than

that I I was both scared of and excited

by the idea that people were going to

come into this movie already feeling

very strongly about the protagonist

Barbie with its vibrant colors offers a

big message challenging stereotypes all

part of the vision for oscar-nominated

director Greta Gerwig were you reluctant

at all given the roles that you've

played over the years I admire Greta and

Margo so much that it was really just an

opportunity to work with them was was

too good

I if I was reluctant it was I I doubted

Mike energy

but I I had to trust that they this is

that they would guide me there's a lot

of talk in the movie about the

patriarchy that word is used a lot in

the film uh the Supreme Court is all

women there's a woman president turn to

the Barbie next to you tell her how much

you love her compliment her reporter

Barbie you could ask me any question you

want how come you're so amazing no

comment I mean I love seeing the Barbies

but it's also a a way to look at

something Through The Eyes of the Kens

where you think oh I see what they've

done there yeah it's not so great when

you're the accessory with its campy

humor the film budgeted at about a

hundred million dollars goes all out

while also reflecting the diversity

Mattel has incorporated in its Dawn line

in recent years many of us remember I

certainly remember when Christy hit the

scene I mean a black gal in Barbie's

Universe you play president Barbie

um what did you make of that and was

significant to you that this film was

sort of one that was all about

inclusivity and it's not the classic

stereotype just The Stereotype of Barbie

of course I mean I think the only

hesitation was just like oh where do I

fit in this in this particular Barbie

world and how like what will the Barbie

world look like because you know no one

wants to be kind of tokenized in that

world but stepping onto this that said

that was part of the beauty was that

there was just

so much of so much representation there

was so much of everyone I grew up with

my my mom and her sister my mom and my

aunt instilling like you have to play

with black Barbies and I didn't

understand I guess the significance of

that was more for them of just not

having the opportunity to play with

dolls that look like them Christy walked

so I could run for president Isha Ray

joined on screen by comic icons like

Kate McKinnon who plays weird Barbies

getting to wear like

cookie outfit and kooky wigs and kooky

stuff on my face that's like where I

feel most at home hi I'm weird Barbie I

am in the splits I have a funky haircut

and I smell like basement but America

Ferreira has perhaps the most memorable

scene as Gloria a mom who reminds us of

the struggle modern day women grapple

with every day Mom are you really gonna

let Barbie take you and your twin

daughter to an imaginary land yes and

you want to know why because I never get

to do anything I ask your co-stars this

and I want to ask you fill in the blank

Barbie is

all of us I'm a young Brown daughter of

immigrants short grew up overweight and

poor I had no access to this narrative

and

something has shifted enough

where there is now space for somebody

like me in that story I just hope that

people love it and I think they will you

should feel good enough whoever you are

you shouldn't feel you have to fit into

a mold fit into a box or fit into

somebody else's idea of who you should

be or how you should fit into the world

the message ultimately is

you're good you're good as you are

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