The actress embraced the fantastic plastic looks as she covered Vogue magazine's 2023 Summer Gazette. Well, I also remember loving you (Greta Gerwig) from afar and then meeting you and being absolutely besotted with you because you instantly reminded me of so many of my friends. They also spent time in Tokyo and Kyoto tracking down noodle places Robbie had read about on food blogs.

In her audition for The Wolf of Wall Street, she went off script and slapped Leonardo DiCaprio across the face.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). That meeting was about pitching LuckyChap, the production outfit she runs with her friend Josey McNamara and her husband, Tom Ackerley, to Mattel.

The movie is based on the Barbie fashion dolls by Mattel, and it stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken. Between bites of avocado toast, grilled Halloumi cheese, and Australian-​​style bacon—“Crisp it up,” she tells the waiter—Robbie delivers the Barbie backstory with Glengarry Glen Ross–esque speed. It’s like you’re playing with dolls when you’re writing something, and in this case, of course, there was this extra layer in that they were dolls,” Baumbach says. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket (if applicable) is included for hard covers.On Babylon, one of the background extras, she’s like a really cool Instagram skater, and we were talking about skating. In the sense that, they don’t have to have gone to film school or grown up around the industry or anything like that, but just love film, care about film. Just as Barbie was given big boobs but no nipples, Ken was given a smooth “bulge,” as Mattel referred to it at the time.

For the film’s London premiere, she transformed into the 1960 “Enchanted Evening” Barbie in Vivienne Westwood couture; for the Seoul premiere, she did double duty as “Day to Night” Barbie, changing from a spectacularly ‘80s power suit into a full-skirted Versace. Her hair is pulled back in double French braids, displaying dangly gold mermaid earrings she got in Ibiza. Every Sunday morning, cast and crew were invited to watch a movie that served as a reference for Barbie. The brand also recreated a spring 1993 polka-dot dress (in hot pink of course), originally modeled by Karen Mulder. On approaching the production of Barbie: “We of course would want to honor the 60-year legacy that this brand has, but we have to acknowledge that there are a lot of people who aren’t fans of Barbie.That last combination of details begins to convey the general vibe of the actual Margot Robbie: She’ll arrive with an assortment of brake-less skates, and she’ll have a hard out at two. My mom would check out books from the library about parenting, and then I would read them,” Gerwig says. When I ask Gerwig and Baumbach to describe their Barbie writing process, the words “open” and “free” get used a lot. If she doesn’t have organs, she doesn’t have reproductive organs,” the “Wolf of Wall Street” actress said. It doesn’t sound stupid but it does seem counterintuitive, the notion that Robbie, whose breakout role in The Wolf of Wall Street was described in that movie’s script as “the hottest blonde ever,” was not envisioning herself in the role of Barbie when she sought the film rights from Mattel.