MIAMI — The “Barbie” film will debut this summer, and a new trailer for the Greta Gerwig-directed film has unveiled more glimpses into the fantastically plastic Barbie Land.
This includes a lot more matchy-matchy bubblegum pink outfits worn by Margot Robbie, in the title role, and Ryan Gosling’s Ken as they sit in a convertible on their way to the actual entire world. Robbie dons her chicest trip search (her beret, tailored costume and side braid are “Emily in Paris” meets Barbiecore) although Gosling goes comprehensive wife-person in a “B” brand jacket.
“Did you provide your rollerblades?” Barbie asks.
“I basically go nowhere devoid of them,” Ken replies, holding up a pair of highlighter-yellow skates viewed in leaked pics final calendar year.
The film (distributed by Warner Bros. Pics, which is owned by CNN’s dad or mum enterprise) hits theaters in July, and the new trailer hints at Gerwig’s devotion to Barbie planet-developing and design and style — appropriate from the opening shot of Barbie’s ft slipping out of her shoes but retaining their signature superior arch.
“Her having her foot out of the heel only for it to nevertheless be in the Barbie foot shape… THAT IS CINEMA,” tweeted Luxx Noir London, a previous “RuPaul’s Drag Race” contestant.
Barbie Land lore
This week’s trailer was accompanied by a collection of a posters that despatched viewers hunting for clues about which dolls will be brought to lifetime. The franchise’s most dedicated supporters may perhaps understand recently unveiled characters, like Allan (Michael Cera), who appears to be Ken’s discontinued “buddy” from the 1960s, and Midge (Emerald Fennell), who is seemingly modeled on a expecting doll of the same identify that was pulled off Wal-Mart’s shelves in 2002 due to client problems.
Joining them is Issa Rae as a presidential Barbie, Dua Lipa as a mermaid Barbie and Kate McKinnon, who has the chopped hair, scrawled-on make-up and intense eyes of a doll who’s observed just one far too a lot of items.
The movie’s costumes have meanwhile sparked enjoyment considering the fact that very last June, when on-established pictures of Robbie and Gosling — who were noticed carrying cowgirl and cowboy outfits and neon rollerblading ensembles, complete with knee pads and visors — set the world-wide-web alight.
“We glimpse like we’re laughing and obtaining enjoyable, but we’re dying on the within — dying,” Robbie told Jimmy Fallon right after the images went viral. “I was like, ‘This is the most humiliating second of my lifestyle.'”
Plot specifics stay tightly underneath wraps, but Robbie has claimed that “Barbie” is not going to be nearly anything like what viewers anticipate.
“We like the issues that truly feel a tiny left of middle,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2020. “A thing like Barbie exactly where the IP, the name itself, people instantly have an concept of, ‘Oh, Margot is playing Barbie, I know what that is,’ but our target is to be like, ‘Whatever you might be considering, we’re going to give you a thing totally unique — the detail you did not know you desired.'”
