Seems, there could solely be one “Barbie.”
Margot Robbie, 33, doesn’t assume there will likely be a sequel to the huge summer time hit “Barbie.”
“I feel we put all the pieces into this one,” Robbie not too long ago informed the Related Press when requested a few potential follow-up. “We didn’t construct it to be a trilogy or one thing.”
“It was like, Greta [Gerwig] put all the pieces into this film, so I can’t think about what could be subsequent,” she added.
“Barbie,” which additionally stars A-listers similar to Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Helen Mirren, and America Ferrera, follows the favored Mattel doll (Robbie) as she is compelled to journey to the true world after she begins to “malfunction” by creating cellulite and experiencing loss of life anxiousness whereas dwelling within the utopian Barbieland.
“I’d say the largest takeaway for me is that authentic movies can nonetheless hit big on the field workplace,” “The Wolf of Wall Avenue” star continued to the AP. “It doesn’t should be a sequel or a prequel or a remake. It may be completely authentic. It will probably nonetheless be large given the large funds to do this.”
Robbie additionally confused that having a feminine lead was not as essential as a few of the film’s critics made it out to be.
“Simply because there’s a feminine lead doesn’t imply it’s not going to hit all 4 quadrants, which is, you already know, I feel a false impression that lots of people nonetheless have,” Robbie defined. “So, it’s actually essential that ‘Barbie’ did properly.”
The Put up reached out to Robbie reps for remark.
The mission has grossed greater than $1.four billion in international ticket gross sales and dethroned “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Half 2” as the largest Warner Bros. film ever.
“Potter” had held the report because it was launched in 2011.
“By no means in my wildest goals did I think about one thing like this,” Gerwig, 40, mentioned concerning the movie’s success. “I wished to make one thing anarchic and wild and humorous and cathartic, and the concept it’s truly being acquired that means, it’s form of extraordinary.”
Since its July launch, the movie has spurred firms to launch “Barbie”-themed objects and impressed a number of TikTok tendencies.
In a single, customers try to face like the enduring doll despite the fact that podiatrists warn in opposition to the follow.
A second development includes rethinking the idea of getting older.
“Barbie” has additionally danced its solution to No. 14 on the checklist of prime 15 highest-grossing motion pictures of all time.
It’s available for purchase or hire on Amazon and to personal on DVD.