‘Barbie’ Cut a ‘Fart Opera’ From the Middle of the Movie, Says Greta Gerwig: ‘I Thought It Was Really Funny. That Was Not the Consensus’

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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