Barbie: Margot Robbie is looking gorgeous in her new Barbie Avatar

Margot Robbie is already a popular face for playing the role of Harley Quinn. Now, the actress will appear as a Barbie in her new film. The filming with the…

By Reetam Bodhak

December 18, 2022

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Margot Robbie is already a popular face for playing the role of Harley Quinn. Now, the actress will appear as a Barbie in her new film. The filming with the external shots in the Florida streets has made a lot of buzzes. Now, however, it has been a while since we’re snowed under with Barbie news, so it’s the perfect time to take a peek at the movie’s first trailer and discover what it will all look like on the silver screen.

The very popular Aqua song “Barbie Girl” is not to feature in the movie. At the same time, you can tell there’s something different in the Barbie world, something that Academy Award-nominated director Greta Gerwig has already teased in previous interviews. After all, the live-action movie is coming out more than 60 years after the doll was created.

The new trailer doesn’t expose much, as it mostly unveils Robbie that’s standing on a beach dressed in her vintage Barbie finest. It is namely the black and white striped swimsuit and 1950s ponytail found on the original incarnation of the doll.

On scoring to Richard Strauss’ ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra’, as the audiences going to recognize from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the trailer concludes on a much more important note. There are some quick clips showing the star-studded cast of the film living their fantastic, plastic lives in a hot-pink Barbie world.

Barbie is written by director Gerwig along with Noah Baumbach, which is another exposing element of the tone and setting of this new movie. Both Gerwig and Baumbach are known for depicting some harsh realities of life – but often with humor at the core, so their take on the world-famous character makes it all the more interesting. Will Ferrell, who plays the CEO of Mattel, suggested in an interview that the movie will be a satire on patriarchy, as well as a critique of social and beauty standards imposed on women.

Barbie: Cast

The star-studded cast of Barbie also features Simu Liu, America Ferrera, Ariana Greenblatt, Ncuti Gatwa, Issa Rae, Hari Nef, Michael Cera, Emma Mackey, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Rhea Perlman, Emerald Fennell, Sharon Rooney, Scott Evans, Ana Cruz Kayne, Connor Swindells, Ritu Arya, Jamie Demetriou, and Marisa Abela.