Margot Robbie; Barbie Dreamhouse.Photo:Greg Doherty/WireImage, Jens Kalaene/picture alliance via Getty
Greg Doherty/WireImage, Jens Kalaene/picture alliance via Getty
The Barbie Dreamhouse has opened its doors!
Margot Robbiehosts a tour of Barbie’s iconic home in a new video forArchitectural Digestahead of the theatrical release of the live-actionBarbiefilm, in which she plays the title role.
The actress, 32, showed off the over-the-top Dreamhouse — which features a pool, bold pink kitchen, and peekaboo views of Barbie’s neighbors — on the set of the film while dressed in character in a light pink and blue checked cropped jacket, high-waisted miniskirt and hat.
Barbie’s kitchen is fittingly revealed to have a pink fridge and a round pink breakfast table. “Not super practical, but nothing is for Barbie,” Robbie noted. Her whimsical, all-pink bedroom features a giant seashell-shaped headboard, iridescent sequined bed covers, and pink puffy cushions.
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“I can’t even tell you about the meetings we’ve had about pink!”Barbiewriter and directorGreta Gerwigsaid in the clip, as she discussed the set design process. “We sat with all these different kinds of pinks and we were like, ‘What is the pink? How do the pinks interact?’ When I was a girl, I wanted the brightest things.”
Robbie said her “favorite design feature” is the pink slide, running from Barbie’s bedroom down to the pool, which is waterless, as “there are no elements in Barbie’s house.” Another highlight is Barbie’sClueless-style wardrobe — designed exactly like the plastic box the iconic doll comes in — where new outfits appear every day.
“I want everyone to feel like they can reach into the screen and touch everything,” Gerwig explained.
Production designer Sarah Greenwood noted that bold color and lighting were used to boost the artificial backgrounds. “When you light them, you can light them into these intense colors — you can really go expressionistic with it,” she explained.
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Margot Robbie in ‘Barbie’.Jaap Buitendijk/Warner Bros.
Among the more surprising details glimpsed in the house tour were a series of pink monkey figurines hanging around, several wigs that Barbie models from scene to scene, and of course her iconic pink convertible — seen in the trailer — that she “floats” down in from her bedroom.
Set to hit theaters on July 21,Barbiealso starsAmerica Ferrera,Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt,Issa Rae,Rhea Perlman, Ana Cruz Kayne, Emma Mackey, Hari Nef, Alexandra Shipp, Kingsley Ben-Adir,Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, Scott Evans, Jamie Demetriou, Connor Swindells, Sharon Rooney,Nicola Coughlan, Ritu Arya andDua Lipa.
source: people.com
