Comedian Joy Koy’s “Barbie” joke may need flopped on the Golden Globes, however the movie’s director, Greta Gerwig, is taking the excessive street.
During his unpopular opening monologue, Koy in contrast the blockbuster to its field workplace rival, “Oppenheimer,” describing the latter as being primarily based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning ebook and “Barbie” as a film about “a plastic doll with big boobies.” Many viewers criticized the joke as sexist and reductive.
In an interview on BBC Radio 4 on Wednesday, Gerwig weighed in.
“Well, he’s not wrong,” she mentioned. “She’s the first doll that was mass-produced with breasts, so he was right on. And you know, I think that so much of the project of the movie was unlikely because it is about a plastic doll. Barbie by her very construction has no character, no story, she’s there to be projected upon.”
Gerwig continued, explaining that Ruth Handler, the creator of the Barbie doll, realized when she was watching her daughter play with child dolls that “my daughter doesn’t want to pretend to be a mother. She wants to pretend to be a grown woman.”
Following overwhelmingly destructive evaluations about his monologue, Koy mentioned the morning after the Globes, “It’s a tough room. It was a hard job.”
Jokes apart, “Barbie” was a field workplace juggernaut. It was the highest-grossing film of the 12 months worldwide in 2023 and the highest-grossing movie ever from a feminine filmmaker.
