Margot Robbie & Greta Gerwig On THAT Barbie Shoe Shot

I've waited my entire life to say this but hi Barbie Margot we saw you arrive pulling a pink suitcase and the Barbie look has really I'm leaning in. You're leaning in. Yeah, so where does Margot end and Barbie begin? I don't even know anymore. It's just a pink fever dream at this point I I never thought I'd own so many pink things in my life But yeah, like I said, I'm leaning in and I'm loving it. It's fun Have you have you had kids coming up recognizing you as Barbie first? Oh, do you what today when we were at icebergs? We're walking down to get a photo and I heard a dad say Louie's little girl. He's like, that's Bobby And I was like, oh Greta I came to this movie thinking it was a movie about dolls, but it's not is it Well, it's it is in a way. It's about I mean, it's about Barbie, but it's also about human beings and and and we're the people that make dolls and then Love the dolls and then get mad at the dolls and then make the dolls different than they are But yeah, it's really about people Who's the movie for it's for everybody Warners didn't tell us to say that We genuinely wanted to make something that everyone would just have a great time watching and I think Yeah, we all did we were allowed to watch half an hour of it. So I don't know Yeah, I do have a question is Barbie a feminist sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, totally Well, I actually think she's something a little more than feminist because at the beginning the power dynamic is definitely in the Barbies favor Yeah, so if you're talking about equality between men and women, it's actually not it's actually not that quite It's not quite equal in Barbie land to begin with but there is a power dynamic shift at some point Ken needs some support. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, the Barbies are kind of Ken needs his like I am woman. Hear me roar Finally get the chance Let's go back to the start then who called who about this movie I called Greta and we did the idea how you always thought that would be fun Or how did it come about like a Barbie movie? I thought it would be really exciting and really scary Because you know, there's a lot of ways to do it wrong, but if you did it, right it could be huge and it's I think Greta did it right and there was very few people I'd want to do this with and Greta was The top of the list and kind of like if she said no, I don't I just don't know what I would Do you have hesitation though? Because there's this complex right history of Barbie, right? Right? Well, I mean I didn't have any hesitation I knew I wanted to work with Margo and we've met before and we'd wanted to do something and then when she brought this to me it was Terrifying, of course because people do have so many feelings about it and it is such an icon But it's an icon that's meant so many different things at different moments But I just I could feel myself leaning into it like and being kind of curious about it and also feeling scared Which is usually when there's something good about it Speaking about leaning in I could not get my face closer to my phone screen when every single trailer has come out for this movie There is a particular moment, you know it where you're in your heels You take a step out and that just absolutely had me on the floor. I need to know everything Is it you is a special effects? Did you get a special pedicure? What on earth is happening? Okay, let me go through those questions Yes, it is me. No, it's no no special effects You'd be amazed how few VFX there are in this film actually, I Don't know we didn't do that many takes of it a couple of takes and I kind of held on to like a bar So I was steady once I step we just put double-sided tape on the floor so that my shoes would stay still I did have a pedicure that morning There was a big discussion at the beginning where they were Everyone said are you gonna CGI all the feet and I thought oh god, that's terrifying And so and I was like and she has the nicest feet No, she does she has these beautiful beautiful dancer feet and and I was like She's hang on to that bar and do it just like that What's it kind of finding all those kind of iconic motifs and throwbacks to Barbie, you know and just reinventing them now Definitely. I mean even like I mean that that in particular the feet felt like I'm like a bit of a bat signal in a way So did the B of Barbie like there were just like things where it was suddenly like It's like we realize globally It's it's known but also we kind of all share this collective memory of what Barbie means and it was Even though it's this huge movie. It feels really personal to me like it it feels like something we made together and that it was made by so many people cared about it so much and even like The the Barbie logo that we used is the logo that I had because that was like I was a child of the 80s and I would stand in the toy store and all the boxes that were so I mean I was like the wide boxes because it meant their hair was really big And the hair was like fanned out and I was like, I I don't know I just wanted it the one that I liked It does mean so much to so many people but in this I'm not sure if Margo filled you in on this greater But the word Barbie means something else in Australia. Did you breathe greater? What does it mean here? So you weren't aware of that Don't blame the blonde hair blame the jet lag No, I mean I'd heard yeah Yeah, I thought maybe there could be like a promotional crossover like, you know, I'm deeply regretting that there's not now that you mention it Barbie Barbie on there doing some snacks. Yeah. Oh, I'm really annoyed. We didn't We're gonna make you grill after this. Yeah We'll fit it in tomorrow Weird idea about a game called Bobby or Bobby. Yes. Oh, they wouldn't let him do and now I'm really glad Oh all week I was pitching in a disaster I was gonna name barbecue items and then things from the Barbie universe and you had to guess but can you imagine how about that? Would have gone if you don't even know what a Barbie is Thing is the Barbie can do everything Can we have an experiment with newsreader Barbie and get you to read the last headline that we didn't quite get to would you be? Yes, which camera we want we want camera for over there To more news now and could Barbie mania be leading to a Barbie baby name boom One expert from the u.s Says we could be at the start of a Barbara comeback after the name dominated charts from the 1920s to the 50s She has a long way to climb Barbara currently sitting at number 1,372 while Ken is at a 178 other names from Barbie land like midge seem less likely to make a comeback poor midge Perfect news reading My news So I have a feeling right that you're a bit sporty you're not just you know, just my Body, right. So my superpower is guessing what netball position you would apply But just yeah netball Barbie, but first you I need to find out like did you ever play netball? I didn't I played I played hockey. We can't be friends. No, no Similar positions in hockey. Well, no, not really. Well, I Have done my research and I feel like in netball if you're a Stereotypical Barbie was a netball player. She'd be a goal attack, right? But I feel and so in hockey, she'd probably be a striker, but I feel like Margot Robbie is a bit naughty. Am I right? Yeah, yeah, I was never sent to forward or anything like that. No, you would have been in defense, wouldn't you? And I was I was on the wing I will actually I was the one I'd bring in if they need to really whack the ball. So you're a netball player with weapons So you would have been a wing defense for a goal defense, yeah, Paul Yeah, great. I'm feeling like you're you've got goalkeeper vibes, which is my position because obviously we can be friends or you You would be the coach you would be just in charge of us all would she be the coach? Yeah Yeah. Oh, well, I don't know actually she could be the at the goal attack. Whatever you is that running the play? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, no, she's Got a lot of fire. Yeah, I did any of that sense. You guys are I don't know what you're saying Just handed you the most coveted position on the netball court. Yeah Really good at cheering so I'll just be on the side being just hyping you up Did this trick on us earlier and I got told I was on the bench Barbies and cinemas everywhere from the 20th of July. I think we're all keen to go see it Please thank Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie for joining us