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Before Margot Robbie, several actresses tried to take an adaptation of “Barbie” forward, including this iconic muse from the 90s.
The great success of 2023 in movie theaters was “Barbie”, directed by the nominee for Oscar Greta Gerwig (“Little Women”). Starring Margot Robbie (“I, Tonya”), this work has become a true cultural phenomenon and is now the film made by a woman with greater ticket office history, conquering more than a billion.
Here we find Barbie (Robbie) who lives on her land with her Ken (Ryan Gosling), surrounded by several other Barbies. Everything goes well until the day she begins to feel changes in the perfection of her life. It is then that she heads to the real world, where she crosses paths with employees of the Mattelthe toy brand that created it and everything will take on a different shape.
In addition to playing the eponymous character, Robbie was also responsible for producing the film. The actress says that when trying to sell the project to Warner Bros.compared the joining of Steven Spielberg and dinosaurs (“Jurassic Park”) to that of Gerwig and “Barbie”, and that both were going to get the same result: billion dollars.
However, there was a time when trying to convince a studio to invest in an adaptation of a plastic doll aimed mainly at girls was not an easy task. In the 90s, an iconic actress who was very fashionable tried to do it, but not even the support of the brand’s president had any effect.
BEFORE MARGOT ROBBIE, THERE WERE SEVERAL ATTEMPTS
We talk about Sharon Stone (“Fatal Instinct”) that in response to the emotional speech of America Ferrera at the Critics’ Choice Awards revealed in a comment by Instagram “I was laughed at in the studio when I came up with the idea for Barbie in the 90s with the support of Barbie’s boss.”
The nominated Oscar per “Casino” further noted how the situation is changing in the industry “how far we have come, thank you, ladies, for your courage and resistance”.
It is worth mentioning that Stone was not the only actress who tried to carry out a film based on the unavoidable character. Before Gerwig and Robbie’s success, both Amy Schumer how much Anne Hathaway were involved in an attempted Sony Pictures project.
On the podcast “Happy Sad Confused,” Hathaway hailed the 2023 film, saying that what’s so exciting about Robbie, Gerwig, Ferrera and Gosling’s work is that “they hit a target, and the target caused the entire world to reach this level of ecstasy.”
Regarding his version, Hathaway believes it is “lucky” that it didn’t happen. Adding that “Margot is simply sublime, period. What she is doing as a creative person and producer is so exciting and inspiring.”
And you, would you like to have seen one of these alternative versions of “Barbie”?
