Noah Baumbach, co-writer of Barbie alongside his wife Greta Gerwig, confessed that he did not initially agree to join the film’s team.
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In his view, it was a bad idea to make a live-action film of the most famous doll in the world.
With that, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker said that “I thought it was a terrible idea and Greta signed me up anyway”, revealed the director in a chat with Gerwig and Judd Apatow at the headquarters of the screenwriters union (WGA) located on the coast western United States.
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Thus, according to Baumbach, when Margot Robbie approached Gerwig about the possibility of her writing the script, the director said she would only do so if her husband helped her. “I was like, ‘I don’t see how this is going to be good.’ “, continued.
According to the director, he said he changed his mind when he read Gerwig’s first drafts for the film. “It was Barbie waking up in her Dream House, going out into the backyard and finding someone who was sick and dying”.
“I read those pages and thought, ‘Now I understand what this is’. The film is about embracing your mortality and about the mess of it all, so it was exciting.”
‘Barbie’, co-starring names like Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Simu Liu, America Ferrera and Will Ferrell, is still showing in some Us cinemas and also in VOD to those who want to see in it their homes. The film reached the US$1.4 billion mark at the global box office