Tag: Kate McKinnon
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Leslie Jones Opens Up on ‘Ghostbusters’ Death Threats, Jason Reitman’s ‘Unforgivable’ Comment and Fighting to Increase Her $67K Salary Offer
Rolling Stone published an excerpt from Leslie Jones’ new memoir in which the actor opened up about the brutal racism and death threats she received over her involvement in the 2016 “Ghostbusters” reboot. The Sony release, directed by “Bridesmaids” helmer Paul Feig, became the target of racist and misogynistic trolls for featuring a main cast…
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Barbie’s Western-Themed Outfit Posed An Unexpected Challenge
Greta Gerwig’s new film “Barbie” is an Adam and Eve story. The Garden of Eden is a place called Barbieland where the youthful idealism sold by Mattel’s Barbie products exists, uninterrupted, in perpetuity. Women have all the power and men are accessories. Everything is clean and made of plastic. The only conflicts exist between the…
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Barbie’s Best Movie Props Now Live In A Tightly Secured Vault At Warner Bros.
In Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster “Barbie,” the title character (Margot Robbie) finds that she is experiencing phenomena that no Barbie has ever experienced before. While dancing with her friends, she has idle thoughts of her own mortality. The next morning, her fake food is spoiled and her fake shower is cold. Most notably, her feet —…
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This ‘Barbie’ Actress Led a Teen Dramedy Series With Jodie Comer
If Kate McKinnon’s Weird Barbie has something to teach us on this side of the silver screen it’s that every Barbie has her own history. When it comes to Greta Gerwig’s current massive box office hit Barbie, this lesson pertains not just to the dolls that inhabit the fictional world created by the director and…
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Cool Stuff: Mattel Is Giving Kate McKinnon’s Weird Barbie Her Own Official Doll
She’s Weird Barbie: She can do the splits, has a funky haircut, smells like basement, and now she can be yours! Mattel designer Javier Meabe has taken Kate McKinnon’s breakout character from Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” film (read our glowing review here) and immortalized her as an official release as part of the Mattel Creations line.…
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How The Minds Of The Truman Show Helped Bring Greta Gerwig’s Barbieland To Life
“Barbie” might be a multimillion-dollar corporate product based on a ridiculously lucrative multimedia property, but it’s also an earnest love letter to cinema history. Of course, that’s nothing new for co-writer and director Greta Gerwig. A quick glimpse at the multi-hyphenate’s filmography will reveal she’s never shied away from openly acknowledging her influences. “Frances Ha,”…
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The Design Rules of Barbie Land Included ‘No Black, No White, Nothing from the Real World’
[Editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers.]Of all the movie references crammed into Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster “Barbie,” the most important is “The Matrix” because it serves as the foundational basis for Barbie’s (Margot Robbie) journey from the feminism of Barbie Land to the patriarchal “real world” of Century City and Venice.That’s the moment, of course,…
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Kate McKinnon’s ‘Barbie’ Character Has an Unexpected Origin Story
With Barbie finally in theaters, we can marvel at how fantastic life in plastic really is. There are many different Barbies living in Barbieland, from Margot Robbie’s protagonist (aka Stereotypical Barbie) to a stranger version of the doll, Kate McKinnon’s Weird Barbie. Her existence within this realm is certainly amusing, given how perfect everything and…
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‘Barbie’ Map Controversy: Warner Bros. Explains the Drawing That Got the Film Banned in Vietnam (Exclusive)
Of all the impressive skills Barbie has amassed in her 64 years as a working doll, who knew that cartography would be a focal point of her highly anticipated summer movie debut?But here we are. Trailers for the upcoming “Barbie,” from director Greta Gerwig and Warner Bros. Pictures, have led to the dissemination of a…
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Margot Robbie Perfected Barbie’s Arched Feet in Eight Takes: ‘I Really Don’t Like When Someone Else Does My Hands or Feet in an Insert Shot’
The official trailer for “Barbie” begins with a now-iconic shot: Margot Robbie stepping out of her high-heel slippers to reveal her bare feet are still arched and ready to be slipped into whatever next shoe accessory awaits. For anyone wondering: Yes, those really are Margot Robbie’s arched feet.As revealed in a new Time magazine cover…