‘Barbie’ movie shares new footage of Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling’s dolls in the real world
“Barbie” star Margot Robbie brought her much-anticipated comedy to CinemaCon and wowed the convention for theater owners and studios with a new look at Robbie’s fantastic plastic doll and Ryan Gosling’s Ken.
The fresh footage shown from director Greta Gerwig’s meta comedy (in theaters July 21) fleshes out the plot, where Barbie is cool hanging out and having dance parties at her house. However, a series of strange circumstances in their plastic landscape lead Barbie and Ken on a series of misadventures in the real world, getting arrested multiple times, singing the Indigo Girls’ “Closer to Fine” and even seeing merman John Cena.
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Making “Barbie” as a producer and star “was just such a huge and exciting opportunity – and a rare one,” said Robbie, who like Gosling was clad in pink on the CinemaCon stage. “Everyone knows Barbie and she’s never been on the big screen before.”
Ryan Gosling got real about playing Ken. “Well, I have to be honest: I only knew Ken from afar before now. I didn’t know Ken from within. I doubted my Kenergy,” he said. “I didn’t see it but Margot and Greta conjured this out of me somehow. One day I was bleaching my hair, shaving my legs and wearing bespoke pink outfits and roller-blading down Venice Beach.”
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Oprah Winfrey debuts first footage from musical ‘The Color Purple’
Also at the Warner Bros. presentation, producer Oprah Winfrey and director Blitz Bazawule were on hand to introduce the first trailer from “The Color Purple” (in theaters Dec. 25), a musical adaptation of the Alice Walker novel. Winfrey’s role in Steven Spielberg’s 1985 movie was her first film role and “the biggest and most important thing that had ever happened to me, and still is. It holds great personal meaning.”
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