What’s Really Going On With The Beef Between Simu Liu And Ryan Gosling’s Kens In The 'Barbie' Trailer? Apparently A Backflip Is Involved

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Interview with Simu Liu

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - You're Ken and Ryan Gosling's Ken.

00:07 There's clearly some baggage

00:09 between the two of you specifically.

00:10 Did you and Ryan or you and Greta talk about

00:12 what went down with them before we meet them?

00:16 Like what is going on?

00:18 - Yeah, I think we did talk about it quite a bit.

00:20 It was just the, you know, the sense of like,

00:22 and I think she had such a genius take on it,

00:25 which is that Kens are like boys on a playground.

00:30 And you know, when boys play with each other

00:34 and they play these games,

00:35 and sometimes you don't even know

00:36 what these games mean or what they are,

00:38 you just know, you know, for example,

00:40 Girls of Cooties, or you play Tag.

00:41 It's like, nobody understands why the rules

00:43 are the way they are, but they're just kind of playing it

00:45 'cause everyone else was playing it.

00:47 And that's kind of, I think, where you find our Kens

00:49 in the beginning of this movie,

00:51 is that they're just like weirdly

00:53 antagonistic toward each other,

00:55 but no one can quite figure out why.

00:57 Like, there's just like, oh, you know, my Ken can do this.

01:01 I don't wanna give away any spoilers,

01:02 but between Ryan and I, one of us can backflip,

01:06 and one of us can't.

01:08 This becomes a very major plot point in the movie, right?

01:11 And like, the fact that one of them,

01:13 again, not gonna say who, one of the Kens can backflip

01:17 makes the other Ken, whoever he may be,

01:20 really, really jealous, 'cause it's kind of really cool

01:23 to know how to backflip,

01:24 especially because it impresses Barbies.

01:26 And so, that just becomes kind of a point of contention

01:31 among all the Kens, is like,

01:33 well, how can we all impress the Barbies?

01:35 'Cause, again, Kens have nothing to do.

01:38 They have no jobs, and so they really only exist

01:41 within the gaze of the Barbies, in Barbieland.

01:45 And so, it's just kind of a really disempowered position

01:48 to be in, and kind of clues you into why

01:53 there's so much infighting among the Kens.

01:55 - Yeah, especially if you can't do a backflip.

01:57 - Especially if you can't, yeah.

02:01 Can't imagine what that would be like, God.

02:04 - Oh, looks like this beach

02:05 was a little too much beach for you, Ken.

02:06 - If I wasn't severely injured,

02:08 I would beach you off for right now, Ken.

02:10 - I'll beach off with you any day, Ken.

02:11 - Anyone who wants to beach him off

02:12 has to beach me off first.

02:14 - I will beach both of you off at the same time.

02:16 - Beach both of us off.

02:17 - Nobody's gonna beach anyone off.

02:19 (upbeat music)

02:21 (dramatic music)

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