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Greta Gerwig Admits She Was Terrified Making ‘Barbie.’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Director Greta Gerwig certainly hit a home run with Barbie.
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  Speaker 2: It's one point four billion dollars at the box office,
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  Speaker 2: makes it the biggest movie of the year in Warner Brothers'
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  Speaker 2: history and of all time by a female director. It's
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  Speaker 2: also a critical smash, and Greta did it with a
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  Speaker 2: property based on an iconic toy, of all things. So
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  Speaker 2: how did she pull it off by allowing herself to
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  Speaker 2: be terrified? She tells Vanity fair Honestly, there was nothing
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  Speaker 2: but fear around all of it from the outset. You're
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  Speaker 2: dealing with the topic that is already so filled with opinions.
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  Speaker 2: But the trick is to say, instead of trying to
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  Speaker 2: tiptoe around it, what if we just stepped into it.
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  Speaker 2: The whole undertaking was definitely like drive it, like you
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  Speaker 2: stole it. Go go go, don't tell them, don't tell
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  Speaker 2: them where we're going. The words of Greta Gerwig, whose
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  Speaker 2: next two films tackle another famous symbolo franchise, The Chronicles
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  Speaker 2: of Narnia for Netflix
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