Margot Robbie has revealed how she studied old Radox adverts for her shower scenes in her highly anticipated movie, Barbie.
The Hollywood star made the revelation as she took Architectural Digest for a tour around the film’s movie set ahead of its release next month.
Trying to be as true to the original doll’s dreamhouse, Robbie revealed that there was no running water on the set nor in the movie, despite Barbie still showering.
Demonstrating in the video how her character does this, the 32-year-old admitted she took inspiration from Radox ads from yesteryear which were known for their over-egged close-up shots of actors enjoying a hot shower.
She shared: “This is her shower. There is, of course, no water in Barbie Land, but she showers nonetheless.
“I would actually just look up old Radox commercials and try and replicate that.”
Recalling the moment she saw the set for the first time, Robbie said it was “surreal”.
She continued: “I’d spent so long looking at the miniatures, and the models, and the drawings, and the design and then when you see it first time in real life and it’s all there... it was really exciting.”
Her tour comes after the company that provided the paint used for the set of the Barbie movie has responded to claims that it caused an international shortage of pink paint.
During an interview with Architectural Digest, director Greta Gerwig and the film’s production designer Sarah Greenwood, spoke about the construction of Barbieland, which is decked out almost entirely in fluorescent pink.
In the interview, Greenwood, a six-time Oscar nominee, claimed that the film had caused an international shortage of pink paint, telling the publication: “The world ran out of pink.”
Now, Lauren Proud, vice-president of global marketing at Rosco, the paint company used by the film, has clarified Greenwood’s remarks.
Ms Proud confirmed the film “used as much paint as we had”, but explained that production on Barbie had coincided with wider global supply chain problems during Covid-19, as well as extreme weather in Texas in early 2021, which had affected vital materials used to create the paint.
Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, she said: “There was this shortage and then we gave them everything we could – I don’t know they can claim credit, [but] they did clean us out on paint.”
The film, which stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, is due to be released in UK cinemas nationwide from July 26.
