Photo:Jaap Buitendijk
Jaap Buitendijk
TheBarbiemovie seems to have it all, between the choreographeddance scenes, A-listcastand its access to the entire world’ssupply of the color pink. However, it turns out that directorGreta Gerwigcut a few extra scenes from her original script.Plans for even more punchy jokes and superstar cameos were left on the cutting room floor, so — at least for now — the world is left with neither aBarbie-Ken kiss nor aTimothée Chalametappearance in Barbie Land. Find out which scenes nearly hit theater screens but ultimately didn’t make it into the film’s final cut.
TheBarbiemovie seems to have it all, between the choreographeddance scenes, A-listcastand its access to the entire world’ssupply of the color pink. However, it turns out that directorGreta Gerwigcut a few extra scenes from her original script.
Plans for even more punchy jokes and superstar cameos were left on the cutting room floor, so — at least for now — the world is left with neither aBarbie-Ken kiss nor aTimothée Chalametappearance in Barbie Land. Find out which scenes nearly hit theater screens but ultimately didn’t make it into the film’s final cut.
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Barbie and Ken’s Kissing Scene
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Fans didn’t get to see Barbie and Ken lock lips on screens becauseMargot RobbieandRyan Goslingcouldn’t envisionhow their toy characters would kiss. When the leading duo spoke to PEOPLE about the film’s lack of smooching, Robbie revealed that she got a little flak for the missing moment.
“All of my girlfriends were like, ‘Well you did a whole movie with him and you don’t kiss? What’s wrong with you? I thought you were kind of in charge on this one!’ ” the actress and producer explained.
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Timothée Chalamet and Saoirse Ronan’s Cameos
Back in September 2022,Saoirse Ronantold PEOPLE that she wasmeant to appear in the moviesince she lives in London, where they were filming. However, a scheduling conflict with another production kept Ronan out of any Barbie scenes.
“I was gutted I couldn’t do it,” said the actress, who worked with Gerwig onLittle WomenandLady Birdand starred opposite Robbie inMary Queen of Scots.
It turns out that Ronan wasn’t the onlyLittle Womenstar meant to pop up in Barbie Land: Gerwig also wantedTimothée Chalametto havea cameo momentin the pink production.
“Both of them couldn’t do it, and I was so annoyed. But I love them so much. But it felt like doing something without my children. I mean, I’m not their mom, but I sort of feel like their mom,” Gerwig later toldCinemaBlend.
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A Lookalike Reference to Emma Mackey and Margot Robbie
In an interview withBuzzfeed, Robbie explained thatEmma Mackey— who plays theNobel Prize-winning physicist Barbie— was cast for a very specific reason: people think she and Robbie look alike.
“She plays one of the Barbies in the movie pretty much because Greta and I thought it would be funny. We were gonna do this whole joke about us looking similar,” Robbie said in a joint interview with Gosling.
But plans changed once the two women were on set and in costume as their respective dolls. “Like, when she’s got her brown hair and I’ve got my blonde hair, we don’t lookthatsimilar. So we didn’t put that joke in the movie,” Robbie explained.
04of 05A ‘Fart Opera’ SceneCourtesy Warner Bros. PicturesGerwig revealed that she and her longtime editor, Nick Houy, had some cheeky ideas for a gag that didn’t hit theaters with the rest ofBarbie:the collaborative duo was hoping to include“a fart opera”mid-movie.“I thought it was really funny,” Gerwig said onIndieWire’sFilmmaker Toolkitpodcast. “And that was not the consensus.”According to Houy, the joke wasn’t timed well enough to make it through the editing process. “We need to work it into a more significant narrative moment next time,” he said.There may very well be a next time when it comes to flatulence-related humor in Gerwig’s work. TheLady Birddirector noted that she and Houy have “always tried to get in a proper fart joke” but have yet to succeed. She said their previous attempts to include fart-related humor have been axed “about two-thirds through the edit” process.
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A ‘Fart Opera’ Scene
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Gerwig revealed that she and her longtime editor, Nick Houy, had some cheeky ideas for a gag that didn’t hit theaters with the rest ofBarbie:the collaborative duo was hoping to include“a fart opera”mid-movie.
“I thought it was really funny,” Gerwig said onIndieWire’sFilmmaker Toolkitpodcast. “And that was not the consensus.”
According to Houy, the joke wasn’t timed well enough to make it through the editing process. “We need to work it into a more significant narrative moment next time,” he said.
There may very well be a next time when it comes to flatulence-related humor in Gerwig’s work. TheLady Birddirector noted that she and Houy have “always tried to get in a proper fart joke” but have yet to succeed. She said their previous attempts to include fart-related humor have been axed “about two-thirds through the edit” process.
05of 05Helen Mirren’s Bold JokeWarner Bros. PicturesSpeaking toCinemaBlend, Gerwig detailed a fiery joke aimed at a historical figure who, like the joke itself, didn’t make it to screens. The director did reveal that she had her film’s narrator,Helen Mirren, record the line despite its ultimate absence from the flick.“It was actually Helen Mirren saying to Marie Curie, ‘Pipe the f— down, Marie Curie!’ ” she said. “But we knew we only got one f-bomb, and we were like, ‘Let’s use it at the very beginning.’ And there’s just something, to me, [about] Helen Mirren saying, ‘Pipe the f— down, Marie Curie.’ ”Gerwig did indeed use her “one f-bomb,” but not during any opening scenes. Instead,Issa Rae’s President Barbie character carries the film’s action home with a pointed quip that gets bleeped out with a Mattel logo over her mouth.
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Helen Mirren’s Bold Joke
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Speaking toCinemaBlend, Gerwig detailed a fiery joke aimed at a historical figure who, like the joke itself, didn’t make it to screens. The director did reveal that she had her film’s narrator,Helen Mirren, record the line despite its ultimate absence from the flick.
“It was actually Helen Mirren saying to Marie Curie, ‘Pipe the f— down, Marie Curie!’ ” she said. “But we knew we only got one f-bomb, and we were like, ‘Let’s use it at the very beginning.’ And there’s just something, to me, [about] Helen Mirren saying, ‘Pipe the f— down, Marie Curie.’ ”
Gerwig did indeed use her “one f-bomb,” but not during any opening scenes. Instead,Issa Rae’s President Barbie character carries the film’s action home with a pointed quip that gets bleeped out with a Mattel logo over her mouth.
source: people.com
