If it was up to the executives at Mattel, some iconic Barbie scenes might never have seen the light of day, according to director Greta Gerwig.
Since its release in July the film has become a cultural revelation, with some iconic scenes throughout the Greta Gerwig-directed flick., some of those scenes might never have seen the light of day, and the world would have been worse off as a result.
In an interview with screenwriter Tony Kushner, Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach opened up about their relationship with Mattel and how certain scenes led to some questions from the Barbie creators.The first of the three scenes is probably the easiest to see why Mattel took issue with it, because it involves one of their fictional executives being shot.
"There was a note when we first turned the script it," Baumbach said."On page 111: 'Does a Mattel executive have to be shot?' At the time we were like, that should just be on the ad!"Gerwig added that"all the notes had a question mark at the end", stressing that Mattel really did give them the freedom to satirize the company as they sought fit."It wasn’t like, 'This has to happen.
The final issue is probably the least understandable from an audience point of view - it refers to the scene where Barbie meets an elderly woman on a bench and tells her she’s beautiful. It's fairly innocuous, but Mattel execs thought it didn't add much to the over-arching story."I love that scene so much," Gerwig said in an interview with Rolling Stone."And the older woman on the bench is the costume designer Ann Roth. She’s a legend.
"That’s how I saw it. To me, this is the heart of the movie," she continued."The way Margot plays that moment is so gentle and so unforced. There’s the more outrageous elements in the movie that people say, 'Oh, my God, I can’t believe Mattel let you do this,' or, 'I can’t believe Warner Bros. let you do this.
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