She’s plastic, but this was not unbelievable.
“Barbie” director Greta Gerwig has revealed her refusal to CGI a certain body a part of the famous doll within the upcoming film, calling the very idea “terrifying.”
“There was a giant discussion at first,” Gerwig, 39, told the hosts of Australian talk show “The Project.”
“Everyone said, ‘Are you going to CGI all of the feet?’ And I believed, ‘Oh god, no! That’s terrifying! That’s a nightmare.’ Also, Margot [Robbie] has the nicest feet. She has these beautiful dancer feet. She should just…do it,” Gerwig said.
“Barbie” is a fantasy-comedy based on the doll of the identical name. The film, in theaters July 21, follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they travel from Barbie Land to the actual world.
The choice to let the actors be themselves appears to have come on the heels of 2019’s widely-panned “Cats” movie, which famously CGI’d a more sensitive area of the feline anatomy.
Audiences — amongst them rumored foot fetishist Quentin Tarantino — don’t have to wait until the twenty first to understand Robbie’s real-life assets.
A gap shot of the trailer for “Barbie” shows, from the legs down, the 33-year-old actress removing high heels to disclose her feet within the arched position – similar to the doll.
Robbie reportedly held onto a bar off-camera, in order that she wouldn’t lose her balance while extending her legs.
The shortage of CGI has been controversial, with Gen-Z fans complaining that Gosling, 42, looks “too old.”
“i’m sorry his wrinkles are taking me out of the experience,” one fan tweeted.
One other outraged fan complained, “I like Ryan Gosling but idk [I don’t know] why he looks slightly too old and dry. Unsure if it’s due to hair or tan but he needed some moisturizer.”
Gosling himself has responded to this criticism.
“I’d say, you realize, if people don’t need to play with my Ken, there are lots of other Kens to play with,” he told GQ.
Gosling said that he thinks the discourse is “funny,” provided that people didn’t take into consideration Ken before he was solid.
“But suddenly, it’s like, ‘No, we’ve cared about Ken this whole time. No, you didn’t. You never did. You never cared. Barbie never f–ked with Ken. That’s the purpose.”
Gerwig said that she thought of every detail of the summer blockbuster.
“Though it’s this huge movie, it feels very personal to me,” Gerwig said during her appearance on the talk show.
“It was made by so many individuals who cared about it. Even the Barbie logo that we used is the emblem that I had as a toddler of the ’80s. I’d stand within the toy store…we had the wide boxes because their hair was really big. I wanted the [logo] that I liked.”