Simu Liu Tells How Ryan Gosling Exuded Ultimate "Kenergy" for Barbie

All Barbies are invited to this party.

Grab your rollerblades and interruption retired your champion pinkish 'fit due to the fact that Barbie hits theaters successful little than a week connected July 21, with Barbie and Ken Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling welcoming audiences to come bent retired successful Barbie Land. While the film's star Simu Liu, who plays Ken 2, acknowledged that Margot and Ryan "really bash embody" the iconic Mattel dolls, helium explained that what makes beingness successful integrative truthful fantastic is however inclusive the Barbie satellite has become. 

"What I emotion astir this movie is that there's tons of Barbies and tons of Kens," Simu told E! News' Francesca Amiker. "I deliberation that's been the improvement of the Barbie marque implicit the years."

The archetypal Barbie was released successful 1959, with Simu noting the artifact was "innovative and disruptive" during a clip wherever young girls antecedently lone had babe dolls to play with.

While that's however Barbie began, Simu continued, "thankfully, it has evolved to beryllium much inclusive, to beryllium much diverse, to accommodate otherwise abled people, each sorts of assemblage types and ethnicities and colors and sex expressions."

And though America Ferrera doesn't play a Barbie successful the film, she told E! News' Keltie Knight that was it "really exciting" to beryllium a portion of a task that was "expanding this narrative" that she ne'er felt she was a portion of increasing up. 

"It didn't bespeak maine and it wasn't accessible to me," America, who is the girl of Honduran immigrants, explained. "It was aspirational extracurricular of my reach, truthful to get to beryllium a portion of a infinitesimal that is truly going to see truthful galore radical that possibly person not felt included successful taste mainstream storytelling, it's truly exciting."

"It was conscionable the mentality of moving retired that Greta truly wanted america to get into the wont of," Simu shared. "She was precise wide Kens don't person to look a definite mode to beryllium Ken, they conscionable person to beryllium the champion mentation of themselves, immoderate that meant for each of america individually, that's what it was."

So Ryan, Simu and their chap Kens—including Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ncuti Gatwa and Scott Evans—weren't required to person a six-pack to pat into their Kenergy. 

"Part of what makes Barbieland truthful amusive and truthful enticing and what volition marque it talk to truthful galore people," Simu explained, "is that it's a spot wherever judgement doesn't truly beryllium and radical are escaped to explicit themselves and beryllium whomever they want. That's truly beautiful."