'Barbie': Greta Gerwig Explains Why All Background Actors Are Dancers
Even though life is plastic and fantastic in the Barbie world, you still have to do the work to make it look so. The blockbuster’s director Greta Gerwig recently talked about how she envisioned the world of Barbie and Ken and the decisions she had to make in order to look as upbeat as possible in a round table interview with Entertainment Weekly.
During the interview, Gerwig talked about making every inch of Barbie Land vibrant, and one way to make the world filled with live-action dolls feel different was to only hire background actors who are also dancers. The director explains that the decision is easy to understand after you just observe how background dancers behave in musicals – even when they are standing still:
"In terms of how they moved and how they behaved, I wanted it to feel heightened, but I didn't want it to feel like a sketch. In soundstage musicals like ‘Oklahoma!’ or ‘Singin' in the Rain,’ there's a quality in the way people move. So all the Barbies and Kens you see on the beach [and other dance sequence settings] hold themselves differently. Our choreographer said dancers, their bodies always have a direction that's different [from] normal people.
The all-star cast of Barbie also features Issa Rae , Simu Liu , Emma Mackey , Kingsley Ben-Adir , Hari Nef , John Cena , Kate McKinnon , Alexandra Shipp , Ncuti Gatwa , Will Ferrell , Michael Cera , America Ferrera , Emerald Fennell and singer-songwriter Dua Lipa.You can check out the trailer below:
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