Australian star Margot Robbie and Emma Mackey - who played Maeve Wiley in the hit Netflix show Sex Education - are among an all-star cast signed up for Greta Gerwig’s forthcoming live-action Barbie movie.
The film, which is expected to hit cinemas next summer, is currently in the shooting phase. Gerwig, who previously directed Lady Bird and Little Women, is signed up to direct the new Barbie movie and is also co-writing it with her partner Noah Baumbach.
Margot Robbie, who’s previously enjoyed critical and commercial success with her roles in films including The Wolf of Wall Street and The Suicide Squad, will star in the title role. But who else is in the new Barbie movie - and when exactly is it coming out?
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Who’s in the new Barbie movie?
Margot Robbie will star as Barbie in the forthcoming movie, with Ryan Gosling signed up to play Ken. Will Ferrell is also set to feature in the film, playing the chief executive of a toy manufacturing company.
Other big names who’ve joined the cast include America Ferrera - who first shot to fame in Ugly Betty - along with Emma Mackey, Michael Cera and Simu Liu. Veteran actress Rhea Perlman, who starred in the classic US sitcom Cheers, is also due to appear.
Details about the plot are so far thin on the ground. It is known, however, that the movie tells the story of a Barbie who finds herself expelled from Barbieland for not fitting the usual mould, and follows her on her adventures in the real world.
Margot Robbie’s Barbie later returns to Barbieland in order to save it. The actress has told fans that they can expect the unexpected from the new film, and suggested that Greta Gerwig’s involvement guarantees it’ll subvert some old stereotypes.
“People generally hear ‘Barbie’ and think, ‘I know what that movie is going to be,’ and then they hear that Greta Gerwig is writing and directing it, and they’re like, ‘Oh, well, maybe I don’t,’” she said in an interview with Vogue last year.
When is the new Barbie movie coming out?
The new Barbie movie is expected to hit cinemas in the United States on July 21, 2023.
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