“There’s no approach to really feel unhappy when you’re this blessed,” Margot Robbie stated throughout a panel at a particular SAG screening on Tuesday night time.
Robbie, who each produced and starred in Barbie, was responding to the missed Oscar nominations for director Greta Gerwig and herself within the Lead Actress class—a scenario that has sparked a lot on-line discourse and disappointment for Barbie followers.
“Clearly I feel Greta ought to be nominated as a director, as a result of what she did is a once-in-a-career, once-in-a-lifetime factor, what she pulled off, it truly is,” Robbie stated. “But it surely’s been an unbelievable yr for all of the movies.”
Barbie is the one billion-dollar movie solely directed by a girl, and it outstripped all different movies on the field workplace final yr, bringing residence $1.4 billion worldwide. As Robbie stated, the response to the movie has turn into a type of cultural phenomenon: “I simply suspect it’s larger than us. It’s larger than this film, it’s larger than our trade.”
Robbie additionally clearly identified that she is “past ecstatic that we’ve obtained eight Academy Award nominations, it’s so wild.” These nominations embody Greatest Image, Supporting Actress for America Ferrera; Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling, Costume Design, Manufacturing Design and Greatest Tailored Screenplay for Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. “Everybody getting the nods that they’ve had is simply unbelievable, and the Greatest Image nod.” Robbie stated.
“We got down to do one thing that may shift tradition, have an effect on tradition, simply make some kind of influence,” Robbie stated. “And it’s already achieved that, and a few, far more than we ever dreamed it might. And that’s actually the largest reward that would come out of all of this.”
Robbie has the SAG screening viewers laughing as she described listening in movie show bogs for viewers reactions after which being in a pub in Scotland overhearing a bunch of males on a Bachelor occasion journey discussing the movie. “It was simply actually fascinating,” she stated. “There have been individuals who on the desk who refused to see the Barbie film. One man was like, ‘Dude, it’s a cultural second, don’t you need to be part of tradition?’ And the opposite man was like, ‘I’ll by no means see it,’ and by the tip he did need to see it. It was a complete factor.”
Robbie recalled she couldn’t resist approaching the group to say whats up. “It took a full minute for them to understand, and I used to be virtually out the door. After which they had been like, ‘Ohhhh!’ It was very humorous.”
“Folks’s reactions to the film have been the largest reward of this whole expertise, whether or not it’s having a second like that, or whether or not it’s listening within the bogs, or whether or not it’s seeing what individuals are writing on-line, and even simply seeing how a lot pink I can see on this room proper now.”
“I’ve by no means been part of one thing like this. Not like this. I’ve achieved comedian e-book stuff and that will get an enormous response, however this felt very totally different. It nonetheless feels very totally different. And I can’t consider a time when a film’s had this impact on tradition. And it’s wonderful to be within the eye of the storm.”
This Greatest Image nomination is Robbie’s first as a producer—she acquired the rights to Mattel’s Barbie along with her manufacturing firm LuckyChap and shares the nomination with fellow producers David Heyman, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner.
