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How Barbie Is EMPOWERING Everyone
Barbie was made to party—which means astatine slightest a small footwork is always involved.
Though Barbie star Issa Rae knew that an epic creation fig would instrumentality spot successful the movie, she simply chalked it up to a infinitesimal that would beryllium extracurricular of her scenes—that is, until she stepped ft onto the on-set dreamhouse.
"When I work that determination were creation numbers successful the script, I was like, ‘Oh, this doesn't person thing to bash with me,' and past my archetypal time connected acceptable was the creation sequence," Issa exclusively told E! News' main analogous Keltie Knight successful a associated interrogation with costars Kate McKinnon and Michael Cera. "And I had to larn it the time before. So, you're getting the champion cuts."
As the Insecure creator teased, she wasn't each excessively unafraid successful nailing her moves.
"It was terrifying, it was the worst time of my life," Issa joked. "But I'm gladsome that it worked out."
And aft costar Michael remarked that it didn't look similar she was having a atrocious time," Issa summed it up to movie magic, responding, "Thank you. I cried afterwards." (For much from Issa, tune successful to E! News tonight, July 10 astatine 11 p.m.).
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Director Greta Gerwig besides recalled the infinitesimal she revealed to Issa that President Barbie had 1 important relation to implicit speech from starring the onshore of make-believe.
"Because of scheduling, we had been rehearsing the creation for a agelong time, but I was like, ‘Well, President Barbie needs a solo,' and she was like, ‘Okay, erstwhile americium I going to larn it?' And I was like, ‘Right now!'" Greta explained to E!. "And she did, she did it large and she's specified a bully dancer."
As the Lady Bird manager noted, contempt Issa's hesitation, she was simply "amazing."
"Honestly I felt enthusiastic and I wanted to person President Barbie person a solo," Greta continued. "That's it. She crushed it."
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Issa besides antecedently reflected connected her enthusiasm astir moving connected the "best set" she's ever been connected (dance fig aside, of course).
"There's conscionable specified a playful quality to this movie and to evidently adjacent being a Barbie, radical are virtually playing with you," she told E! News successful June. "So, to ideate myself arsenic being controlled by a kid portion being President made things conscionable a batch much amusive and nimbler and flexible and ridiculous successful a mode that I love."
Barbie hits theaters July 21.
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