Barbie: Margot Robbie reveals co-star Emma Mackey was cast in double joke – which got scrapped
Margot Robbie has revealed that she and director Greta Gerwig “thought it would be fun” to cast their celebrity look-alike, Emma Mackey Barbie.
For years, fans have pointed out the physical similarities between Robbie, 33, and Mackey, 27.
While sex education While Star admitted in 2022 that it “would be nice to get over the comparisons,” Robbie recently said that she and Gerwig put them squarely in the game on purpose.
“For years I’ve been told I look like the girl sex educationwho is Emma Mackey,” Robbie said in a new video interview with BuzzFeed.
“[Mackey] plays one of the barbies in the movie because Greta and I thought it would be funny. We wanted to make this whole joke about how we look alike,” she said.
The joke didn’t make it into the final version, however, as they realized they didn’t look that much alike in costume anymore.
“When we all dressed up as our Barbies, we were like, ‘We don’t actually look that much alike,'” recalls the Australian actor. “For example, if she has her brown hair and I mean blonde hair, we don’t look THAT alike, so we didn’t put that joke in the movie.”
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Twitter exploded when it was first announced that Mackey had been cast alongside Robbie’s eponymous Mattel doll, who, after being expelled from Barbieland, makes her way to the human world to seek true happiness find.
“Emma Mackey and Margot Robbie must be siblings Barbie, it just fits,” enthused a fan at the time.
He had previously commented on the matter in a separate interview The IndependentMackey said while the comparisons are “nice,” she would rather “focus on the jobs we both do than what we look like.”
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“Hollywood makes people look alike and we love to label people,” she added. “It’s just a thing we do as a species, we categorize people, we’ve always done that.”
Before BarbieWhen it opened in theaters on July 21, initial critical response was overwhelmingly positive, and clamored for Ryan Gosling to receive an Oscar for his role as “Scene Stealer.”
Speak with People In a new interview, 42-year-old Gosling, who stars as Barbie’s boyfriend Ken, revealed that Robbie raised money for charity by mandating “pink days” on set and fining her co-stars and crew members for not wearing pink wore clothing.