If you watched “Barbie” and thought it was missing a proper fart joke, then you might’ve loved one scene that Greta Gerwig and editor Nick Houy left on the cutting room floor.
In a new IndieWire interview with the collaborators, it was revealed that “Barbie” had a “fart opera” in the middle of its runtime that got cut because it wasn’t received as well as Gerwig hoped.“We’ve always tried to get in a proper fart joke and we’ve never done it,” Gerwig said.
“We had like a fart opera in the middle [of ‘Barbie’].
I thought it was really funny.
And that was not the consensus.”“It was in the wrong place, too,” Houy added.
“We need to work it into a more significant narrative moment next time.”Houy has been the editor on all of Gerwig’s solo directorial outings, but “Barbie” presented unique challenges.
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