Greta Gerwig

Anticipation for the Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling film just went up even higher.

[attached to the movie](https://deadline.com/2019/07/greta-gerwig-noah-baumbach-warner-bros-barbie-script-1202646509/) as a writer for years—she wrote the script with her longtime partner Noah Baumbach–and officially signed [signed on to direct](https://variety.com/2021/film/news/greta-gerwig-barbie-movie-director-margot-robbie-noah-baumbach-1235015427/) in July of 2021. (When a last doll is tossed in the air, instead of cutting to a rotating spaceship a la Kubrick, the trailer cuts to the gleaming Barbie logo.) Prior to Barbie’s release, Robbie will appear in Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, and Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City. After this spot-on parody, we get a few rapid-fire clips from the actual film, including fleeting shots of fellow dolls played by Ryan Gosling, Simu Liu, and Issa Rae.. The minute-long clip is an homage to 2001: A Space Oddysey’s opening sequence, in which apes discover the monolith. We finally have our first look with a

Barbie teaser: Actor Margot Robbie is the iconic and cheeky American doll in Greta Gerwig's take on the popular toy. Watch. | Hollywood.

Several animated versions of Barbie have released on video and television before. Margot can be seen surveying the different 'dollhouses' in Barbie land, all of which are pink or purple in their colour schemes. Simu is dressed in all black while dancing, while Issa Rae is spotted in a pink jumpsuit. The music from Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey soundtrack ushers in the entrance of the giant doll, Barbie, who is definitely not a baby. [Greta Gerwig](https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/greta-gerwig)'s Barbie, released on Friday, introduces [Margot Robbie](https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/margot-robbie) as the popular and iconic American doll. The little girls are awestruck around her and throw their own baby dolls away, some even smashing theirs to pieces. Dressed in a black-and-white striped swimsuit and black high heels, this new doll is sexy. But the dolls were always and forever baby dolls. (Also read: [Barbie trailer first look: Margot Robbie strikes a pose in a classic swimsuit](https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/hollywood/barbie-trailer-first-look-margot-robbie-strikes-a-pose-in-a-classic-swimsuit-101671172437611.html)) There are said to be many Barbies and Kens, though Margot and actor [Ryan Gosling](https://www.hindustantimes.com/topic/ryan-gosling) are reportedly the main versions of their characters. Margot gives the camera a slow wink as she lowers her white sunglasses. The trailer opens with the voice of Helen Mirren stating, "Since the beginning of time, since the first little girl ever existed, there have been...

The trailer appeared in cinema screenings of “Avatar: The Way of Water” before being released online Friday morning.

Margot Robbie stars as Barbie in Gerwig’s exploration of the iconic doll. The trailer pays homage to the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” through its music and imagery. [Skip Advertisement]

All the leaked set photos in the world could never have prepared us for Margot Robbie as Barbie through a Stanley Kubrick lens.

I only hope this particular pretty movie will comment on who gets to be pretty, and how Barbie herself left a lot of little girls feeling very un-glamourous indeed. [Ken (Ryan Gosling)](https://jezebel.com/eva-mendes-might-be-a-little-too-supportive-of-her-husb-1849123829) as a lacrosse bro aside—it does give us a cinematic CT scan of Gerwig’s brain and her approach to mythologizing the distinctly curvy ditz who enchanted as many young girls as she gave body dysmorphia to. There’s a feminist lens in Gerwig’s toolbox, and I’m hoping she employs it in an irreverent, tongue-in-cheek fashion. And say goodbye to room-temperature robes, blankets, socks, and pajamas. But we’ve finally got our first real peek into the Valentino-pink Barbie verse, and Gerwig’s world of plastic and vanity is nothing if not high-brow camp. In a subversive wink at film critics chomping at the bit to pan the new Barbie film, Gerwig and Warner Bros.

Margot Robbie makes her bold debut as the Mattel figure.

[33% off](https://howl.me/ciHr3Enl66G) [Ncuti Gatwa](https://www.avclub.com/ncuti-gatwa-didnt-tell-barbie-co-stars-about-doctor-who-1848986837), Kingsley Ben-Adir, and [Simu Liu](https://www.avclub.com/simu-liu-greta-gerwig-barbie-audition-1848932580). From this bit alone, we see the unabashedly fun, glossy, and uber-pink world Gerwig brought to life for this film. In a play on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the teaser opens with a group of young girls living peacefully amongst their baby dolls. To think we ever doubted her! [Noah Baumbach](https://www.avclub.com/greta-gerwig-and-noah-baumbach-to-write-margot-robbies-1836391886).