Acknowledging that the individuals concerned with the movie, together with Gerwig and Robbie, “performed no small function in cultivating my love of sitting at the hours of darkness in entrance of massive screens for an hour or two,” Nef stated that that was solely part of her should be within the movie. “Id politics and cinema aren’t my favourite mixture, however the title BARBIE looms giant over each American girl,” she wrote. “Barbie’s the usual; she’s The Woman; she’s actually THE doll.”
Nef added that her and her “different transgender girlfriends” began calling themselves “the dolls” a number of years in the past, whereas noting the phrases’ roots in ballroom tradition.
“Possibly it is a bid to ratify our femininity, to smile and sneer on the requirements we’re held to as ladies,” she wrote. Whereas the time period is considerably of a joke, Nef stated, the time period additionally alludes to “the form of a girl who isn’t fairly a girl — recognizable as such, however nonetheless a pretend.”
“‘Doll’ is fraught, glamorous; she is, and he or she is not,” Nef wrote. “We name ourselves ‘the dolls’ within the face of all the things we all know we’re, by no means will likely be, hope to be. We yell the phrase as a result of the phrase issues. And no doll issues greater than Barbie.”
Nef’s casting was first introduced a couple of 12 months in the past as a part of a various and star-studded ensemble. Whereas Margot Robbie has lengthy been confirmed as the primary Barbie and Ryan Gosling the primary Ken, Nef was beforehand rumored to be one in every of a number of Barbies, alongside Insecure creator Issa Rae. Simu Liu and Ncuti Gatwa are additionally rumored to be taking part in completely different Kens. And judging from the graphic that Nef shared, which specifies that her Barbie is a health care provider, plainly the multiverse is as soon as once more set to take over summer time blockbusters.
This story initially appeared on them.us.
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