Greta Gerwig Says She Was “Terrified” That ‘Barbie’ May Be “A Profession-Ender” – Deadline

Three-time Oscar nominee Greta Gerwig has opened up in regards to the mixture of pleasure and terror she felt in taking over Warner Bros’ upcoming characteristic Barbie as co-writer and director.

“It was terrifying. I feel there’s one thing about ranging from that place the place it’s like, ‘Properly, something is feasible,’” Gerwig tells singer-songwriter Dua Lipa in an episode of her podcast At Your Service printed on Friday. “It felt like vertigo beginning to write it. Like, the place do you even start? What could be the story?”

Gerwig went on to say that she took the movie on given the sense that the “terror” it was bringing upon her was of the “actually attention-grabbing” selection — that the movie would problem her in ways in which could be productive. 

“Normally, that’s the place the very best stuff is. If you’re like, ‘I’m petrified of that,’” she stated. “Something the place you’re like, ‘This could possibly be a career-ender,’ then you definitely’re like, ‘OK, I in all probability ought to do it.’”

The filmmaker advised Dua Lipa that the execs at Mattel — the toymaker behind the Barbie line — have been “superb companions” on the mission, providing her a degree of “belief and…freedom” that she feels is “extremely” uncommon.

“No matter we needed [the film] to be, they didn’t attempt to micromanage it,” she shared. “They have been fully onboard as companions, and that was extraordinary.”

Whereas particulars as to the upcoming Barbie movie’s plot stay below wraps, it can have Margot Robbie taking part in the enduring doll, with Ryan Gosling as her counterpart Ken. Others that includes within the pic’s starry ensemble embody America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Simu Liu, Will Ferrell, Ariana Greenblatt, Emma Mackey, Alexandra Shipp, Issa Rae, Michael Cera, Hari Nef, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Rhea Perlman, Ncuti Gatwa, Emerald Fennell, Sharon Rooney, Scott Evans, Ana Cruz Kayne, Connor Swindells, Ritu Arya, Jamie Demetriou and Marisa Abela.

Gerwig wrote the script together with her husband Noah Baumbach. Robbie and Tom Ackerley are producing below their LuckyChap Leisure banner, alongside Mattel’s Robbie Brenner and Heyday Movies’ David Heyman, with LuckyChap’s Josey McNamara and Mattel’s Ynon Kreiz serving as exec producers.

Gerwig can at present be seen starring reverse Adam Driver in Baumbach’s movie White Noise, based mostly on the postmodern novel of the identical identify by Don DeLillo. The Netflix pic world premiered on the Venice Movie Competition and opens in choose theaters right this moment, earlier than debuting on the streamer on December 30.

Gerwig’s newest directorial effort, Barbie, is slated for launch on July 21, 2023.