If you had any doubts over whether the Barbie movie would be skimping on colour, then get them out of your mind – because they really went all out.
So much so, in fact, that production actually led to an international shortage of pink paint.
Honestly, this film just keeps giving us more reasons to love it.
Writer and director Greta Gerwig was in charge of bringing Barbie to life, with , 32, as the doll herself while , 42, is
Chatting ahead of the hotly-anticipated film’s release this summer, Ladybird’s Greta explained just how important it was for her to make
‘Maintaining the “kid-ness” was paramount,’ Gerwig told .
‘I wanted the pinks to be very bright, and everything to be almost too much.’
She added that the finer details were meant to bring a bout of nostalgia and reflect what ‘made me love Barbie when I was a little girl.’
Meanwhile, designer Sarah Greenwood revealed that the production led to a shortage of the fluorescent shade of Rosco paint.
‘The world ran out of pink,’ she said.
Sarah also previously told that ‘pink became the film’s thesis’.
‘It was epic dealing with the painters, mixing the right colorus.
‘When we got to our palette we had over a hundred pinks, ranging from the purpley pinks right through to the fleshy millennial pinks.
‘We hit the sweet spot in the middle, which is about 10 pinks.’
The team gave each shade a name, which stuck throughout the whole process.
‘We’d been building our palette on Rosco colors.
‘When it came time to order, they didn’t have enough pigment! Everybody was scrambling around trying to find more. I’m sure the producers were going, “This pink looks very much like that pink. What is the problem?” But we got there in the end.’
Also starring the likes of Emma Mackey, Ncuti Gatwa, Nicola Coughlan, and Dame Helen Mirren, the Barbie movie is already on course to become of 2023.
But if you’re sceptical, don’t be so quick to write it off – because
The plot follows Barbie as she starts to experience some strange things in her pink paradise, with one horror discovery being waking up with flat feet!
So, she heads out into the real world to figure out the truth.
Naturally, chaos ensues, given that an actual doll is running wind in Los Angeles – Ken tags along for the ride, of course.
We then see Will Ferrell’s corporate character embark on a mission to get the doll back in her box.
With high-speed car chases and all kinds of stunts, the Barbie movie is set to be a real blockbuster – and we can’t wait.
That’s not all though, as a poptastic soundtrack will
Featuring Dua Lipa, Nicki Minaj, Charli XCX, Haim, Ice Spice, and even Mr Ryan Gosling himself, the album is about to become the playlist for all our summer parties.
Barbie will be released on July 21, 2023.
