Ferrera, who co-stars in 'Barbie' as Gloria, a lifelong admirer of the doll, delivers a rousing speech about womanhood in the film. Here's how it came together.
Anyone who played with Barbie as a kid will tell you that their make-believe scenarios — fights between friends, trips to the doctor, frantic searches for shoes before a fashion show starts — fueled the unpacking of real emotions. In Greta Gerwig’ssuch a moment arrives in the second half of film against the backdrop of the the candy-colored plastic dreamland.
Barbie has made her return to Barbie Land after a brief, overwhelming visit to the real world. She’s despondent over the changes her feminist utopia has undergone as the Kens have taken over, and her newfound feelings of inadequacy are tormenting her: “I’m not smart enough to be interesting. I can’t do brain surgery. I’ve never flown a plane. I’m not president. No one on the Supreme Court is me. I’m not good enough for anything.
in a sweeping monologue that outlines the maddening and contradictory expectations women must negotiate.It is literally impossible to be a woman,” Gloria says. “You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don’t think you’re good enough... I’m just so tired of watching myself and every single other woman tie herself into knots so that people will like us. And if all of that is also true for a doll just representing a woman, then I don’t even know.
Giving the powerful monologue that’s at the heart of the movie to Gloria, rather than the film’s namesake, felt more earned,“America’s [Gloria is] a human, America’s us,” Gerwig said. “America has lived in the world as a person and can kind of articulate all this. Barbie just got flat feet yesterday.”
“When I was working with America in rehearsal,” Gerwig continued, “she shared with me, from years earlier, something she’d written in a notebook, which was astonishingly similar to what the speech was. And it was like that thing in ‘The Shining’: ‘It was always you.’ We’d been, each in our way, coming to this moment. When she gave that speech, it was coming from such an unadorned true place inside of her.
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