As you have probably seen, Barbie It was released at the box office this week.
Fans and critics praise the Greta Gerwig– directed film.
But it might have been a slightly different movie if Greta had listened to the studio executives who told her to cut the scene where Barbie meets an older woman.
“I really like that scene,” Greta He told Rolling stone. “And the older woman on the bench is costume designer Ann Roth. She’s a legend.”
“Certainly a dead end of a moment – going nowhere.
“And in the early cuts, watching the film, they suggested, ‘Well, could you cut it. And actually the story would go on the same way.”
But Greta wasn’t having it. “I said, ‘If I cut the scene, I don’t know what this movie is about,'” he continued. “For me, that’s the heart of the film. The way Margot plays that moment is so tender and so effortless.”
“There are the more outrageous elements of the movie where people are going, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe Mattel let him do that,’ or, ‘I can’t believe Warner Bros. let him do that.’
I love how he explains the reasons for shooting the scene. It makes perfect sense.
You can read the full interview with Rolling Stone here.