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How Barbie Is EMPOWERING Everyone
Ken you judge it?
Less than 2 weeks earlier the Barbie movie hits theaters, fans got a caller promo for the movie featuring a philharmonic show by nary different than Ryan Gosling.
In the clip, released July 10, his quality Ken laments done opus that beingness successful integrative isn't ever fantastic arsenic helium cries to Margot Robbie's Barbie astir however helium doesn't cognize who helium is without her.
"It's Barbie and Ken," helium tells her successful the video. "There is nary conscionable Ken."
And helium tries to further explicate his feelings done song.
"Doesn't look to substance what I do," Ken sings portion flashing his abs. "I'm ever No. 2. No 1 knows however hard I try. Oh, I person feelings that I can't explain, driving maine insane. All my beingness been truthful polite."
However, helium wants Barbie to spot him arsenic much than this.
"'Cause I'm conscionable Ken. Anywhere other I'd beryllium a 10," Ken belts out. "Is it my destiny to unrecorded a beingness of blonde fragility? I'm conscionable Ken. Where I spot love, she sees a friend. What volition it instrumentality for her to spot the antheral down the tan and combat for me?"
And helium knows helium has much to offer.
"I'm conscionable Ken, and I'm enough," helium continues arsenic his chap Kens—played by Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa and Kingsley Ben-Adir—sing along. "And I'm large astatine doing stuff. So, hey, cheque maine out. Yeah, I'm conscionable Ken."
You cognize what? You truly conscionable person to spot it for yourself.
Ryan—who is featured connected the film's soundtrack and has besides showed disconnected his singing skills successful movies like La La Land—seemed to recognize what Ken was going done successful much than conscionable the Greta Gerwig-directed movie. After all, he'd seen the mode Ken was treated firsthand, arsenic helium explained however his and Eva Mendes' daughters Esmeralda, 8, and Amada, 7, played with the doll.
"I would find conscionable Ken discarded each astir the house," helium exclusively told E! News' main correspondent Keltie Knight. "So this thought that Greta had that radical don't play with Ken is precise true."
It's a sentiment Ryan's chap Kens can't assistance but hold with.
"I don't deliberation a batch of radical owned Ken dolls, which is benignant of the comic happening astir this movie, right?" Simu besides told E!. "Kens are conscionable kinda there. Nobody truly cared astir Ken. Barbie was ever the prima of the show. She had the job. She was the accomplished one. She was the astronaut, engineer, doctor, lawyer, immoderate person you, president. Kens are conscionable accessories to the Barbies."
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Fans tin spot Ryan, Margot, Simu and the remainder of the star-studded cast when Barbie hits theaters July 21.
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