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SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the plot of Barbie.
Barbie‘s America Ferrera has offered new insights into her experience preparing to deliver a showstopping monologue from the Warner Bros film’s third act.
In the film starring Margot Robbie as the iconic Mattel doll, Ferrera plays Gloria, a Mattel employee from the real world who, with daughter Sasha (Ariana Greenblatt), encounters Barbie, making it clear to this doll come to life that she’s great just as she is, even if society tends to place much pressure and many contradictory demands upon women. The idea expressed, Ferrera explained in a recent interview with Vanity Fair, is about “the impossible assignment of being all things to all people.”
Ferrera shared that when filmmaker Greta Gerwig first approached her about the role of Gloria and this specific monologue, it was “flattering” but at the same time “felt like pressure in the nicest way.” When the actress read the speech, she explained, “it hit me as powerful and meaningful. It also felt like, wow, what a gift as an actor to get to deliver something that feels so cathartic and truthful. But it also felt like this pivotal moment that I obviously didn’t want to mess up. There was a little bit of healthy pressure around it.”
In terms of preparing to deliver the monologue, Ferrera thought first and foremost about the tone with which she was approaching it. “My big question was, “okay, so how are we playing this? Am I playing this slightly humorously? Am I trying to deliver it in a tone that still fits into the tone of Barbie Land?” said the actress. “It was interesting that I initially felt that we wouldn’t just go as straightforward and real with it as we did, that I assumed that there
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America Ferrera’s real-life husband, Ryan Piers Williams, had a cameo in Barbie as her onscreen spouse.
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Lizzo‘s Barbie song ‘Pink’ has been shared.The original version opened the movie but a darker version of the song entitled ‘Bad Day’ featured during a scene when Margot Robbie‘s character is having an existential crisis.The alternate version wasn’t originally made available on the Mark Ronson curated soundtrack but it has now been shared online. You can listen to it below.‘Pink’ was described in a three star NME review of the soundtrack as “a smooth disco number from Lizzo, who is her effortlessly charismatic self.
Margot Robbie and America Ferrera‘s skin was practically glowing in Barbie, and throughout the press tour – and there was a secret ingredient to getting it that way.
America Ferrera in the Barbie movie has inspired many. Her character, Gloria, represents a real-life woman who provides comfort and reassurance to Barbie through a powerful monologue. This monologue highlights the challenging and conflicting expectations that women have to face in today’s world.In a recent interview with The Atlantic, Greta Gerwig, the director of Barbie, shared that even the male cast members were moved by the film.
There's a turning point in the movie, when Margot Robbie's Stereotypical Barbie realizes that the human influence that's been causing turmoil in her perfect Barbie Land life — flat feet, thoughts of death, and, worst of all, — is not a child at all, but a nostalgic mother.Mattel employee Gloria, played by America Ferrera, has been playing with the doll in the Real World and reminiscing about happier times with her now-sullen tween daughter, Sasha (Ariana Greenblatt). But as her adult-level worries took over, they also crept into Barbie Land, making things far less perfect then usual.When the trio return to Barbie Land to find that the Ken-led patriarchy has taken over, Barbie's existential crisis begins in earnest, but a rousing, epic monologue from Ferrera's character helps break the spell of masculine brainwashing and motivates the Barbies to take back their lives.The film was co-written by director Greta Gerwig and her partner, Noah Baumbach, but the monologue has Gerwig's signature style all over it.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Barbie,” now playing in theaters nationwide. America Ferrera’s epic “Barbie” monologue left the entire set in tears, Greta Gerwig recalled in a new interview with The Atlantic. Even the male cast members were left emotional, which the director reasoned was because they have their own speech to make.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Barbie,” now playing in theaters nationwide. America Ferrera’s epic “Barbie” monologue left the entire set in tears, Greta Gerwig recalled in a new interview with The Atlantic. Even the male cast members were left emotional, which the director reasoned was because they have their own speech to make.
Barbie monologue scene took somewhere between 30 to 50 takes to film.The actor plays Mattel executive Gloria in the new Greta Gerwig-directed film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, and revealed that one of the most pivotal sequences of dialogue – about the double standards women face – was a huge undertaking on set.“It worked on the page, and so I definitely wanted to give that feeling to the audience as the person performing it— to make it resonate the way that it did with me when I read the words on the page,” Ferrera told Vanity Fair.The actor then revealed that shooting for the scene took two days. “It’s one part of a much bigger scene with lots of characters in it.
America Ferrera gave us one of the most memorable moments in the new movie Barbie and you can read a transcript of her monologue right here!
Zack Sharf Digital News Director SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Barbie,” now playing in theaters nationwide. Most moviegoers heading into “Barbie” were expecting Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling to have the film’s most iconic moments, but that title might actually belong to co-star America Ferrera. As Gloria, a Mattel executive who helps Barbie land back on her feet, the Emmy-winning actor gets one of the film’s centerpiece scenes: an impassioned monologue about the double standards women face on a daily basis. “We shot it over two days,” Ferrera revealed in a new interview with Vanity Fair. “It’s one part of a much bigger scene with lots of characters in it. I had to do it many, many times for other people’s coverage and to get through the whole scene and over the course of two days.”
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America Ferrera is admitting to something personal!
America Ferrera is reflecting on her latest role, as well as being outspoken and advocating for change.
America Ferrera was very sincere in a new round of interviews. While promoting her new film “Barbie,” which premieres July 21st in theaters, Ferrera revealed to her costars one of her guilty pleasures, claiming that she would regret her admission later. America Ferrera and Margot Robbie fangirl over Nicki Minaj at ‘Barbie’ premiere: ‘That was iconic’Margot Robbie and America Ferrera matching in red: See pics of their Barbie looks in LondonA post shared by America Ferrera (@americaferrera)The video inteview was conducted by Vanity Fair and showed some of the cast members of “Barbie” alongside their director Greta Gerwig playing a game of asking each other questions to test how well they know each other.
America Ferrera might “regret” sharing her guilty pleasure with the world.
cast knows each other pretty well, but no one could guess America Ferrera's guilty pleasure!Ferrera, Margot Robbie, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon and director Greta Gerwig recently sat down with to play a fun game in which they quizzed each other on themselves, revealing fun personal facts the others might not have known. For example, Robbie's favorite reality show is (U.K.
Barbie’s America Ferrera recently revealed something that brings her joy — and it definitely threw fans for a loop.