Video: ‘Barbie’ | Anatomy of a Scene

“My identify is Greta Gerwig, and I’m the co-writer and director of ‘Barbie.’” “(SINGING) I’m simply Ken. Wherever else, I’d be a ten.” “The factor that I can say most about this sequence is that this was the factor that I most knew what I needed it to be, and nobody else knew what I needed it to be. Each time I take a look at this, it’s simply the ridiculousness of how we did it, which is that they’re clearly arriving on these pedalos on a seashore that has no water. It’s a strong mass with these waves which are sculptures. And I had everybody on this scene faux to be transferring in sluggish movement aside from Ryan, who’s singing. And I believe I bought 4 takes into it, and I assumed, this simply — is that this so ridiculous that I’m doing faux sluggish movement? However then I assumed, I believe I simply must commit. Now I’ve executed it. There’s nothing else I can do. My stunt coordinator, Roy Taylor, who’s an excellent, good particular person, and he labored with my choreographer, Jenny White, as a result of I needed all of the preventing to be someplace between dancing and a sort of vaudevillian ridiculousness of a Buster Keaton or a Charlie Chaplin. I like that sort of bodily comedy. So that you see males tangoing within the background along with preventing. As a result of they’re Kens, they’re youngsters. All of it form of goes collectively.” “Ah!” “Ah! Ah!” “Then we now have our Barbies, who’re form of watching with their pink boilersuits, which I believe Jacqueline Durran, who’s the costume designer, she did the pink boilersuits as a result of I wore boilersuits day-after-day. And she or he was like, I’ve determined what the Barbies will put on after they’re taking again Barbieland. And I cried once I noticed it as a result of I used to be like, oh, it’s a tribute to me. A lot of this sequence is the tune that Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt wrote, which was not within the script. However I did ask them as a result of they have been writing the tune that grew to become Dua Lipa’s ‘Dance the Evening.’ I stated we’d like a Ken tune, and I believe it goes within the battle. After which they wrote this tune from the attitude of Ken. After which I stated, Ryan, are you up for singing this? And he stated sure, in the end. However initially, I don’t know. I believe he was like, you by no means stated something about this initially. However I believe they despatched me 30 seconds of an thought for the tune, that I simply liked. After which I used to be like, Are you able to make it 11 minutes lengthy? As a result of I would like it to undergo this complete sequence. After which this half, this dream ballet half, Sarah Greenwood, who’s a manufacturing designer, and Katie Spencer constructed this stage to echo the dream ballet stage from ‘Singin’ within the Rain’ as a result of I like that film. And that has probably the greatest dream ballets of all time as a result of they’ve a dream ballet that’s inside one other dream ballet, which, I believe, when persons are like, will anybody perceive this? I used to be like, sure. There’s a context for this. They’ll grasp it. And each Ken, each Barbie, is a dancer the entire time. After which I selected all of the actors, too, as a result of they have been good dancers. Jenny White, who was my choreographer, she and I checked out plenty of completely different musicals, completely different dream ballets. However Busby Berkeley was an enormous reference.” “(SINGING) I’m simply Ken. Wherever else, I’d be a ten.” “I sort of love that ‘we’re placing on a present’ factor of this film, which could be very linked to theater and likewise the pleasure of constructing one thing in a childlike means. And we began with dance rehearsals, and I believe it was a great way to place all people in that mindset of it’s not about perfection. It’s about this pleasure. And so they clearly embodied that. In a means, you need the viewers to stroll out and say, I’d wish to go make one thing. I need to go play. I need to go set one thing up. I need to do a efficiency. And that’s how I felt once I watched plenty of motion pictures once I was a child, or theater. I immediately was like, I’m going to prepare my very own model of ‘Starlight Categorical’ proper now.” “(SINGING) No one else No one else I’m simply Ken.”