“My identify is Greta Gerwig, and I’m the co-writer and director of ‘Barbie.’” “(SINGING) I’m simply Ken. Anyplace else, I’d be a ten.” “The factor that I can say most about this sequence is that this was the factor that I most knew what I needed it to be, and nobody else knew what I needed it to be. Each time I take a look at this, it’s simply the ridiculousness of how we did it, which is that they’re clearly arriving on these pedalos on a seaside that has no water. It’s a strong mass with these waves which can be sculptures. And I had everybody on this scene faux to be shifting in sluggish movement aside from Ryan, who’s singing. And I feel I acquired 4 takes into it, and I believed, this simply — is that this so ridiculous that I’m doing faux sluggish movement? However then I believed, I feel I simply should commit. Now I’ve finished it. There’s nothing else I can do. My stunt coordinator, Roy Taylor, who’s an excellent, sensible individual, and he labored with my choreographer, Jenny White, as a result of I needed all of the combating to be someplace between dancing and a type of vaudevillian ridiculousness of a Buster Keaton or a Charlie Chaplin. I really like that type of bodily comedy. So that you see males tangoing within the background along with combating. As a result of they’re Kens, they’re youngsters. All of it form of goes collectively.” “Ah!” “Ah! Ah!” “Then we now have our Barbies, who’re form of watching with their pink boilersuits, which I feel Jacqueline Durran, who’s the costume designer, she did the pink boilersuits as a result of I wore boilersuits on daily basis. And she or he was like, I’ve determined what the Barbies will put on once they’re taking again Barbieland. And I cried once I noticed it as a result of I used to be like, oh, it’s a tribute to me. A lot of this sequence is the tune that Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt wrote, which was not within the script. However I did ask them as a result of they had been writing the tune that grew to become Dua Lipa’s ‘Dance the Night time.’ I mentioned we want a Ken tune, and I feel it goes within the battle. After which they wrote this tune from the attitude of Ken. After which I mentioned, Ryan, are you up for singing this? And he mentioned sure, in the end. However initially, I don’t know. I feel he was like, you by no means mentioned something about this at first. However I feel they despatched me 30 seconds of an concept for the tune, that I simply liked. After which I used to be like, Are you able to make it 11 minutes lengthy? As a result of I need it to undergo this complete sequence. After which this half, this dream ballet half, Sarah Greenwood, who’s a manufacturing designer, and Katie Spencer constructed this stage to echo the dream ballet stage from ‘Singin’ within the Rain’ as a result of I really like that film. And that has top-of-the-line dream ballets of all time as a result of they’ve a dream ballet that’s inside one other dream ballet, which, I feel, when persons are like, will anybody perceive this? I used to be like, sure. There’s a context for this. They’ll grasp it. And each Ken, each Barbie, is a dancer the entire time. After which I selected all of the actors, too, as a result of they had been good dancers. Jenny White, who was my choreographer, she and I checked out quite a lot of totally different musicals, totally different dream ballets. However Busby Berkeley was an enormous reference.” “(SINGING) I’m simply Ken. Anyplace else, I’d be a ten.” “I type of love that ‘we’re placing on a present’ aspect of this film, which may be very linked to theater and in addition the pleasure of creating one thing in a childlike approach. And we began with dance rehearsals, and I feel it was a great way to place everyone in that mindset of it’s not about perfection. It’s about this pleasure. And so they clearly embodied that. In a approach, you need the viewers to stroll out and say, I’d wish to go make one thing. I need to go play. I need to go set one thing up. I need to do a efficiency. And that’s how I felt once I watched quite a lot of films once I was a child, or theater. I immediately was like, I’m going to arrange my very own model of ‘Starlight Specific’ proper now.” “(SINGING) No person else No person else I’m simply Ken.”