Hari Nef, who plays Doctor Barbie in the ‘Barbie‘ film, shared a letter that she wrote to Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie to fudge the schedule a little bit. During the casting call, Nef faced a scheduling conflict, so she decided to write a letter.
On Twitter, Nef shared the letter. She said, When I heard I was cast as a Barbie in the Barbie movie, it looked like I was maybe not going to be able to do the film because of a scheduling conflict. so I wrote Greta and Margot a letter essentially begging them to fudge the schedule a little bit. part of what I wrote was:
‘This is a big movie, made by a team whose work has played no small role in cultivating my love of sitting in the dark in front of big screens for an hour or two. But that’s just a part of why | want-my heart says “need”-to join in the making of this film. Identity politics and cinema aren’t my favorite combination, but the name BARBIE looms large over every American woman. Barbie’s the standard; she’s The Girl; she’s certainly THE doll. Me and my girlfriends—okay, yeah, me and my other transgender girlfriends— we started calling ourselves “the dolls” a couple of years ago, though the phrase stretches back into the language of our foremothers in the ballroom scene. “The Dolls.” Maybe it’s a bid to ratify our femininity, to smile and sneer at the standards we’re held to as women. It’s a joke, of course; we throw our voices: “the do-o-lIs!” But underneath the word “doll” is the shape of a woman who is not quite a woman-recognizable as such, but still a fake. “Doll” is fraught, glamorous; she is, and she isn’t. We call ourselves “the dolls” in the face of everything we know we are, never will be, hope to be. We yell the word because the word matters. And no doll matters more than Barbie.
Most recently, the first look character poster for Hari Nef’s Doctor Barbie has been revealed. “This Barbie is a doctor,” were mentioned in the poster. See the poster below.
Barbie is directed by Greta Gerwig and written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. The film stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken, with an ensemble supporting cast that includes Will Ferrell, Simu Liu, America Ferrera, Ariana Greenblatt, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, Alexandra Shipp, Michael Cera, Issa Rae, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Rhea Perlman, and Kate McKinnon.
Barbie will hit theaters on July 21, 2023, by Warner Bros. Pictures. Watch the teaser below.
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