This Barbie has no flatulence.
The blockbuster “Barbie” movie’s soundtrack includes colourful hits from Lizzo, Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice, and Billie Eilish, but director Greta Gerwig also revealed that the film was originally intended to incorporate a “fart opera.”
“We’ve all the time tried to get in a correct fart joke and we’ve never done it,” Gerwig told IndieWire revealed concerning the secret mission she held with longtime editing collaborator Nick Houy to get their characters to pass gas when working together.
But apparently there isn’t a farting in Barbie Land.
“We had like a fart opera in the center [of ‘Barbie’]. I assumed it was really funny. And that was not the consensus,” she explained.
“It was within the incorrect place, too,” Houy added. “We’d like to work it right into a more significant narrative moment next time.”
Failed farts aside, Gerwig, 39 claims much of her original script, which she wrote alongside Noah Baumbach, 53, includes themes of female empowerment and criticism of the patriarchy and was supported by Mattel.
She did, nevertheless, previously state that the toy manufacturer wasn’t exactly thrilled a couple of line within the flick where Barbie is named a “fascist.”
Mattel executives even flew out to London where the movie was being filmed to try to persuade Gerwig to remove the remark.
Nevertheless, it still made the ultimate cut.
“It wasn’t like I ever got the total seal of approval from [Mattel], like, ‘We find it irresistible!’” Gerwig told the Latest York Times. “I got a tentative, ‘Well, OK. I see that you’re going to do that, so go ahead and we’ll see the way it goes.’ But that’s all you wish, and I had faith once it was in there they usually saw it that they’d embrace it, not fight it.”
She continued, “Possibly at the top of the day, my will to have it in was stronger than every other will to take it out. “A part of me thinks that since it was all so idiosyncratic and so wild, it was almost like nobody really knew where to start out taking it apart. Like, where are you going to start out hacking away at how strange it was?”
Gerwig also included several dis-Ken-tinued and controversial Barbie dolls within the movie, including pregnant Midge, Ken’s BFF Allan, Tanner the pooping dog, and Growing Up Skipper.
“Possibly because there was this sense of sheer joy behind it, it was this difficult thing to say, ‘Oh no, we don’t want that thing that’s sheer joy.’ People wanted it to exist, in all its weirdness,” the director explained of her artistic decisions.
The highly anticipated and marketed “Barbie” movie, which stars Margot Robbie within the titular role and co-stars Ryan Gosling as Ken, opened last Friday and broke box office records as people across the country rushed to theaters to see the beautiful in pink feminist film.
Any of Mattel’s discomfort with the film has probably subsided by now as “Barbie” made $214 million during its first five days on the US box office alone, CNBC reported Wednesday.
Globally, “Barbie” has made a implausible $470 million.
The Post has contacted reps for Gerwig and Mattel for comment.
