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LOS ANGELES CA – JUNE 27: Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling film new scenes for ‘Barbie’ in Venice California. 27 Jun 2022. (Photo by MEGA\/GC Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The news of a live-action Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie as the iconic children’s doll<\/a> was already enough to send the internet into meltdown mode. But when her jock boyfriend Ken was confirmed to be played by Ryan Gosling and Little Women<\/em>‘s Greta Gerwig was announced as director, the project was shot to White Lotus-<\/em>Jennifer Coolidge levels of internet iconic before filming had even started.<\/p>\n

But despite the culture’s positive response to the idea of a 2022 version of Barbie hitting screens, let alone the girls’ and the gays’ screams of joy upon seeing a fluoro pink lycra-clad Robbie and Gosling in rollerblades on set, Gerwig says she initially thought the film could be a potential “career-ender.”<\/p>\n

Speaking on Dua Lipa’s At Your Service<\/em> podcast, the Oscar-nominated director described the “terror” she felt upon accepting an offer from Robbie, who is both the film’s star and a producer, to be involved in the project, telling Lipa, “It was something that was exciting so I had that terror. There\u2019s something about starting from that place where it\u2019s like, well, anything\u2019s possible.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gerwig, who’s currently in post-production, added, “I had what felt like vertigo when starting to write it, like, where do you even begin? What would be the story? I knew that it would be really interesting terror. Usually that\u2019s where the best stuff is. <\/span>Anything where I\u2019m like this could be a career ender \u2014 I probably should do it.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Gerwig explained she’d wanted to work with Robbie for a long time, after previously meeting her during a project that didn’t get off the ground, so she said yes immediately when this opportunity arose. Simultaneously <\/span>putting forward her partner Noah Baumbach for the job too, without letting him know, leading him to ask why they weren’t doing a different project together, instead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 02: Entertainment Honoree Margot Robbie (R) poses backstage with Greta Gerwig at the WSJ. Magazine 2022 Innovator Awards at the Museum of Modern Art on November 02, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images for WSJ. Magazine Innovators Awards)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“It was in March 2020 that Noah said, ‘Are we meant to be writing a Barbie movie?’ she told Lipa. “I said yes and he\u2019s like, ‘I don\u2019t have any ideas for that, why didn\u2019t you sign us up to write a different thing?’ And I was like \u2018I have a feeling about this.'”<\/span><\/p>\n

So far most details about the upcoming film have been kept under wraps, however, in a previous interview, Robbie said it won’t be what we expect. \u201cAll we can say is whatever you\u2019re thinking, it\u2019s not that,\u201d said told th The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/i>. \u201cSomething like Barbie where the IP, the name itself, people immediately have an idea of, \u2018Oh, Margot is playing Barbie, I know what that is.\u2019 But our goal is to be like, whatever you\u2019re thinking, we\u2019re going to give you something totally different \u2014 the thing you didn\u2019t know you wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

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