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It's time to get to know the cast of Greta Gerwig's comedy movie Barbie!  Barbie Cast:  Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Kate McKinnon, Will Ferrell, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Mackey, Issa Rae and Scott Evans  Stream Barbie now on Max!

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00:00 I don't know if it's in the cut where I'm like holding Ryan Gosling without a shirt on.

00:04 I don't know if that's...

00:05 It's not in the cut?

00:05 It's not in the cut.

00:06 Aww.

00:06 But it exists and it happened and you always have that.

00:09 I held him shirtless for 25 minutes.

00:12 Wow.

00:13 And that was pretty...

00:14 religious.

00:17 When I was cast, I laughed.

00:24 [laughter]

00:26 Like, oh wow, I get to be, you know, in a Barbie movie.

00:30 I didn't ever see that in my career trajectory.

00:33 And then to see the rest of the cast, so surreal.

00:37 Everyone was just outstanding and it was just like showing up to a playground.

00:42 I had a very interesting experience by being told by a friend,

00:46 "Congrats on Barbie. That's so cool."

00:48 I'm like, "I don't know what you're talking about."

00:50 [laughter]

00:51 Really?

00:51 Yes.

00:53 That's amazing.

00:54 Someone who knew the casting director pretty well and that it was in the works apparently.

00:58 That's so...

00:59 So I was like, "Well, wait. Is it half? I don't know what..."

01:02 Did you think you were getting cast as Ken or did you know you were going to be like the Mattel...

01:06 I had no idea.

01:08 So then, and then I still didn't hear for a while.

01:11 I'm like, "Maybe it's all just... whatever."

01:13 That guy's a liar.

01:14 Welcome to Hollywood.

01:16 But then, of course, it really did happen.

01:20 Got to read the script and was just, "Oh, this is going to be fantastic."

01:26 I kind of cast myself, so...

01:28 I know. You started this whole thing.

01:30 Surprise.

01:31 I was so shocked. I was surprised.

01:33 I couldn't believe it.

01:34 No, I definitely said to...

01:35 And I said to everyone before when we started developing the project,

01:38 I was like, "If whoever directs this, and I'm hoping it's Greta Gerwig,

01:43 wants someone else to be Barbie, I'm cool with that.

01:45 I'm very happy just to produce this movie."

01:47 But Greta said, "No, I want you to be Barbie."

01:49 But we went after our dream person for every role,

01:53 manifested it on the page.

01:55 Everyone's names were written into the script,

01:58 and everyone said yes.

02:00 I have to say, when all the Kens are playing at the Barbies on the beach,

02:04 I really, really loved that scene.

02:07 Because as much as we're making a joke about how cringy it is

02:09 when guys play the guitar at you,

02:12 I also can't help but, inside, I am quietly delighted.

02:16 I'm like, "He's playing the guitar at me!"

02:18 I was like, "Ryan Gosling's a foot away from me,

02:21 playing the guitar at me!"

02:24 And then all the Kens and Barbies doing it.

02:26 -And he's good! -Of course he's good.

02:27 -He's good. -He's Ryan Gosling.

02:29 I love the dream ballet and the Ken-on-Ken warfare

02:34 of just, you know, you have these characters that I think,

02:38 they're kind of the antagonists of the movie in a way,

02:40 but I think in that moment, it shows so many layers to the Kendam.

02:45 At once, these very evolved beings who are struggling to come into their own

02:50 and having their own journey,

02:52 and then also just playground boys who have absolutely no idea

02:56 what any of what they're doing is,

02:58 or any notion of consequences.

03:00 They're just like, as if patriarchy was just something that they saw on TV

03:05 and then went out into a sandbox and were just trying to play it in a game.

03:09 That's all they ever wanted to do.

03:11 There's something so kind of childlike and innocent about it.

03:14 It was really stupid and silly chasing you through the cubicles.

03:19 So the CEO and all the board, we'd have to catch Barbie

03:24 and we'd do this almost like Matrix-like running around,

03:28 chasing you, but it was very slapstick and running into each other

03:31 and scaring each other.

03:33 And then Ron, Tom always says when he watches that,

03:35 he's like, "I love that bit because I can see both of you laugh

03:38 while you're screaming and you walk away because we both go, 'Ahh!'"

03:42 I love shooting the car chase. I thought that was so fun.

03:46 Oh, yeah!

03:47 And I got to be the driver of this insane, crazy car chase.

03:51 And they let me--I mean, against their better judgment--

03:55 let me drive in some of it.

03:57 I trusted you.

03:58 It was such a blast.

03:59 I mean, it feels like such a trip because truly I didn't grow up feeling

04:03 really like Barbie resonated with me so much.

04:07 And so to read the script and to get to be a part of sort of

04:10 a reimagining of Barbie with so many more versions of her

04:15 and so much more representation, it's like it feels really fun

04:19 and exciting and like a gift to my little girl self,

04:22 but also to all the little girls now who get to watch Barbie's world

04:26 and see Issa as President Barbie and that they belong in that world.

04:31 My presidential--

04:32 I love that too!

04:33 I wanted to steal it.

04:35 There were a couple things I did successfully steal.

04:38 That one.

04:39 Don't--oh.

04:41 I'm so bad at that.

04:42 Let me take that back.

04:43 There were a couple things that I really wanted to steal,

04:45 but I didn't get a chance to, and the presidential tracksuit was one of them.

04:49 Did you take the sash as well?

04:50 That would be a good--did you want to steal the sash?

04:53 No.

04:54 But you didn't successfully do it?

04:55 No.

04:56 Yeah.

04:57 [laughter]

04:59 I had a great time not stealing my Ken onesie, my golden white Ken onesie.

05:04 I'm a little sad that I didn't steal it.

05:06 Yeah.

05:07 I had so many--I was so lucky to get so many outfit changes,

05:10 and I have no idea which would be my favorite because they were all so pretty.

05:15 I just loved that it was always matching and it was always with the hat

05:18 and the thing and the thing and the thing.

05:19 It's like she's just so high maintenance, like the sweetest way.

05:22 You know, there's a costume designer, and then there's a sculptor, a painter,

05:27 a storyteller, a writer.

05:30 Oh, God.

05:32 Cut that out.

05:33 Please cut that part out.

05:34 I'm sorry.

05:35 It's true!

05:36 This is art.

05:37 [music playing]

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