Margot Robbie has made the Barbie dream come true, the film that opens this Friday in theaters and that tells the adventures of the “stereotypical” doll with blonde hair and blue eyes. The Australian not only embodies the main character, but she is also the producer of the film that has taken ten years to reach theaters since its announcement.
The 33-year-old actress got her company LuckyChap to obtain the rights from toy company Mattel and signed director Greta Gerwig to conceive the script and direct the film, which aims to tell the controversial story of this “polarizing” toy and do “something incredible”.
Robbie is not new to the big screen, far from it, although perhaps the general public is not unaware of the Australian’s career. The interpreter rose to fame thanks to the series Neighbors, for which she recorded 311 episodes and for which she was nominated for two Logie Awards, the most important awards on Australian television.
He then made the leap to the US, where he landed a starring role in the series Pan Am. His film career began in Hollywood with a supporting role in About Time. Everything changed after the premiere of The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), where she shared the bill with Leonardo DiCaprio and Matthew McConaughey.
In The Wolf of Wall Street, Robbie played the second wife of Jordan Belfort, the stockbroker accused by the US authorities of stock market manipulation and money laundering, among other crimes. That role earned him a BAFTA Award nomination.
Since that film, we have seen the Australian in other productions such as Suicide Squad, Peter Rabbit, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Suicide Squad and Babylon. Now, she will be the protagonist of Barbie, the film that is on its way to becoming a phenomenon, beyond the movie theaters. Even Zara has turned to the premiere, launching an exclusive collection. And if we google the movie, everything will be tinged pink.
The Barbie movie is already in Spanish theaters. And Robbie assures in an interview with Efe that “I couldn’t be happier” with the result, a film with excellent performances, costumes and music that combines parody and criticism of the patriarchy with an inevitable promotion of the brand.
Robbie also explains that, although as a child she was “agnostic” about the doll created in 1959 by Ruth Handler, making this film has helped her “appreciate what Mattel has managed to do with her, by transforming her into a type of professional woman of different sizes and ethnic minorities.
