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Greta Gerwig says the reception to her monster hit Barbie has been “probably the most thrilling factor” to expertise.
Talking at a particular display discuss on Sunday on the BFI London Movie Pageant, the place she acquired a rockstar welcome (as did her interviewee, Succession creator Jesse Armstrong), she stated the movie’s set had been “probably the most joyful” she’d ever been on. “So, I assumed, if I could make a film that’s half as enjoyable to look at because it was to make, I believe possibly we have got a shot.”
Nonetheless, Gerwig additionally admitted that regardless of loving the method of constructing the movie, she nonetheless skilled enormous quantities of self-doubt over her inventive selections, citing the “I am Simply Ken” dance scene the place the quite a few Kens are combating on the seashore. “That sequence, specifically, was simply stuffed with selections that thrilled me and made me so glad, however then I would be driving dwelling on the finish of the day and considering… ‘Oh no!'”
Regardless of Gerwig’s nervousness, Barbie went on to interrupt quite a few information, amassing greater than $1.4 billion, making it the highest-grossing movie of 2023, Warner Bros.’ highest-grossing movie of all time and the highest-grossing movie by a solo feminine director.
“It is like this unbelievable sense of ‘the music that is in my coronary heart is in different folks’s hearts,'” she stated of the response to the movie. “It has been extremely shifting.”
Throughout Barbie’s opening weekend, Gerwig stated she was in New York, however she did not wait to listen to concerning the response to the movie from different folks, so she went to get solutions for herself.
“I went round to completely different theaters and kind of stood within the again, and would then additionally flip the quantity up if I felt it wasn’t taking part in on the good degree,” she claimed. At one such screening, she heard one lady howl with laughter over the joke concerning the Proust Barbie, one of many quite a few particular one-liners she inserted within the movie. “And I used to be like: ‘That joke was for you!'”
Gerwig stated she was at present engaged on one other challenge, with out gifting away many particulars. “I am within the writing course of,” she admitted, “and it is exhausting as a result of I am having recurring nightmares.”
