Celebrating Greta Gerwig's 40th, the director received an original surprise from the person who played Ken in her film.
Greta Gerwig's 40th birthday was in the news yesterday. The actress, screenwriter, and director were celebrating, the best moment of her career, after the success of Barbie, whose impact does not stop growing.
One of the great added values of the film was something that cannot be seen directly on the screen but that undoubtedly affects the result: the level of connection and the relationship that the people who were part of the filming had.
This was demonstrated on dozens of occasions, including previous interviews or different premieres where the main actors and the director were very smiling. Definitive proof of this is the gift that Ryan Gosling gave Greta Gerwig yesterday for her birthday.
While the director was resting, in what appeared to be a pilates room, a group of people surprised her with a "flashmob", dressed in pink and doing choreography, before Gerwig's astonished gaze. The group had been sent by the actor, who plays Ken in the movie Barbie. A flash mob is an organized action of a group of people who gather suddenly in a place (which is usually public) to do some strange activity, which is usually a choreographed dance.
At the end of this intervention, the director was amazed at her, while she greeted the different dancers one by one, who also seemed really excited about what they had just done. After several greetings, Greta covered her face and shed some tears, showing that she obviously liked Gosling's gift.
The chemistry between the director and her star was not the product of a long partnership on other films. Beyond the fact that both share a profession, they had never been lucky enough to share a set before in their career. Barbie was enough to create a bond that made Gosling know exactly what would make the director excited about him.
