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Margot Robbie Struggled to Understand How to Play ‘Barbie’ Until She Had This Realization · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. One of the biggest
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  Speaker 1: fears typically for an actor is for their performance to
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  Speaker 1: be labeled plastic. So what do you do when your
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  Speaker 1: character is plastic? That was the challenge Margot Robbie faced
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  Speaker 1: when she was tasked with playing Barbie, and shit missed
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  Speaker 1: a variety. It made the role harder than any she's
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  Speaker 1: had prior. She says, it was so weird prepping Barbie's
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  Speaker 1: a character. All my usual tools didn't apply. I work
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  Speaker 1: with an acting coach, a dialect coach, and a movement coach.
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  Speaker 1: I rely on animal work a lot. I was about
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  Speaker 1: forty five minutes into pretending to be a flamingo or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and I realized this is not working, she added. Margo
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  Speaker 1: approached director Greta Gerwick with her concerns and how she
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  Speaker 1: didn't want Barbie to be dumb or DITZI, but she's
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  Speaker 1: also not meant to know anything. Retta suggested she listened
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  Speaker 1: to an interview of a woman that might help. Margo ads,
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  Speaker 1: this woman can't introspect. She doesn't have the voice in
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  Speaker 1: her head that's constantly narrating life the way we all do.
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  Speaker 1: She's got a PhD and is extremely smart, but just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have the internal monologue. Hearing that interview was a
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  Speaker 1: light bulb moment for Margo and the rest, of course history.
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  Speaker 1: Barbie's on VOD that's direct from Hollywood.