The protagonist of Barbie has reacted after several days of silence to Barbie's Oscar nominations, alluding to the film's achievements and everything it has meant on a cultural level.
Barbie has been one of the star films of the last year and has competed for numerous awards since it was released, but the surprise came with the Oscar nominations, after seeing that neither Margot Robbie nor Greta Gerwig were nominated in their corresponding categories.
Ryan Gosling was the one who expressed his displeasure first, but he wasn't the only one. Everyone's reaction was quick and very critical, but the one who had not yet spoken out was Margot Robbie, who is one of the main people affected by this snub made by the Academy. After several days of controversy, she has finally spoken at a special SAG screening.
The actress has expressed how she feels and what she has experienced since Barbie was born. The film has received a total of 8 nominations and Robbie wanted to make it clear that she is "beyond ecstatic" about this even though they did not get the nomination for Best Actress and Best Director.
Even so, he alluded to the project's director Greta Gerwig: "Obviously I think Greta should be nominated as director, because what she did is something unique in her career, something unique in her life, what she achieved, it really is. But it's been an incredible year for all the movies."
About Barbie and what she has achieved so far, she has said: "I just suspect it's bigger than us. It's bigger than this movie, it's bigger than our industry... For everyone to get the nominations they've had is just incredible, and the nomination for Best Film," Margot wanted to highlight.
Robbie wanted to emphasize what the objective was of launching something like Barbie in the film industry: "We set out to do something that would change the culture, that would affect the culture, simply that would have some kind of impact. We have already done it, and much more than we ever dreamed. And that's really the greatest reward that could come from all of this."
Furthermore, the interpreter wanted to refer to the wave of responses that there have been from the public: "People's reactions to the film have been the greatest reward of this entire experience, whether it is having a moment like this, or whether it is listening in bathrooms, or seeing what people write on the internet, or even just seeing how much pink you can see in this room right now."
In fact, she has told an anecdote about this in which she overheard several men at a bachelor party talking about the topic. One of them said that he was not going to see Barbie and another replied that it was "a cultural moment."
During her speech, the actress was very grateful for being in a project of this nature and this social impact: "I have never been part of something like this. Not like this. I have done things from comics and that generates a great reaction, but "This has been very different. It still feels very different. And I can't think of a time when a movie has had this effect on culture. It's incredible to be in the eye of the storm."
With this, Margot Robbie has taken a step forward and expressed her happiness for the 8 nominations she has obtained for the film and, although she would have wanted Gerwig to win the Best Director award for Barbie, she has also been calm about what happened . For her, Barbie has already achieved her goal of breaking barriers and setting a precedent in world culture.
