Greta Gerwig has revealed she needed to struggle to maintain the ‘I’m Simply Ken’ dance sequence in Barbie.
Throughout a Display Speak dialog on the BFI London Movie Competition on Sunday (October 8), Gerwig mentioned she was requested whether or not the sequence led by Ryan Gosling’s Ken was needed throughout a “huge assembly”.
“It simply mentioned within the script, ‘After which it turns into a dream ballet and so they work it out by dance,’” Gerwig advised Succession creator Jesse Armstrong on the occasion (by way of Selection). “There was an enormous assembly that was like, ‘Do you want this?’ And I used to be like, ‘All the things in me wants this.’
“They had been like, ‘What do you even imply? What’s a dream ballet?’ And I used to be like, ‘A dream ballet? The place do I start!’”
Gerwig mentioned the sequence, which is soundtracked by the tune ‘I’m Simply Ken’ written by Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, was impressed by 1952’s Singin’ In The Rain which featured a “dream ballet within a dream ballet”.
“I used to be like, if folks may observe that in Singin’ In The Rain, I feel we’ll be positive,” Gerwig mentioned. “I feel folks will know what that is. In order that was the massive reference level.
“Although every little thing felt proper to me and was giving me a lot pleasure in the way in which we had been doing it, it was additionally like, ‘Oh no, this may very well be simply horrible, however now I’m dedicated.’”
Barbie has turn out to be the highest-grossing film of the 12 months worldwide up to now, and the highest-grossing movie ever by a feminine director.
In a four-star evaluate, NME wrote: “What follows is a nuanced, rose-tinted comedy journey, set to a stonking pop soundtrack that includes Lizzo and Billie Eilish, that in some way lives as much as the immense hype. To borrow a pun from Ken’s coolest jacket (out of an extended lineup), Barbie is greater than ‘kenough’.”