Seems, there could solely be one “Barbie.”
Margot Robbie, 33, doesn’t assume there will probably be a sequel to the huge summer season hit “Barbie.”
“I believe we put every thing into this one,” Robbie lately advised the Related Press when requested a couple of potential follow-up. “We didn’t construct it to be a trilogy or one thing.”
“It was like, Greta [Gerwig] put every thing into this film, so I can’t think about what can be subsequent,” she added.
“Barbie,” which additionally stars A-listers resembling Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Helen Mirren, and America Ferrera, follows the favored Mattel doll (Robbie) as she is compelled to journey to the true world after she begins to “malfunction” by growing cellulite and experiencing demise anxiousness whereas residing within the utopian Barbieland.
“I’d say the most important takeaway for me is that unique movies can nonetheless hit enormous on the field workplace,” “The Wolf of Wall Road” star continued to the AP. “It doesn’t must be a sequel or a prequel or a remake. It may be completely unique. It could actually nonetheless be huge given the large price range to try this.”
Robbie additionally confused that having a feminine lead was not as necessary as a number of the film’s critics made it out to be.
“Simply because there’s a feminine lead doesn’t imply it’s not going to hit all 4 quadrants, which is, you recognize, I believe a false impression that lots of people nonetheless have,” Robbie defined. “So, it’s actually necessary that ‘Barbie’ did effectively.”
The Publish reached out to Robbie reps for remark.
The venture has grossed greater than $1.4 billion in world ticket gross sales and dethroned “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Half 2” as the most important Warner Bros. film ever.
“Potter” had held the file because it was launched in 2011.
“By no means in my wildest goals did I think about one thing like this,” Gerwig, 40, stated concerning the movie’s success. “I wished to make one thing anarchic and wild and humorous and cathartic, and the concept it’s really being acquired that means, it’s type of extraordinary.”
Since its July launch, the movie has spurred firms to launch “Barbie”-themed gadgets and impressed a number of TikTok traits.
In a single, customers try and stand like the long-lasting doll though podiatrists warn towards the observe.
A second pattern includes rethinking the idea of growing old.
“Barbie” has additionally danced its option to No. 14 on the record of high 15 highest-grossing films of all time.
It’s in the stores or hire on Amazon and to personal on DVD.