If you've gotten a chance to watch Barbie, then you know the movie is crammed with Easter eggs and little nods from throughout the iconic doll's 64-year history.
Now, just a reminder:
One of those nods is about Ruth Handler, who in the film is played by Rhea Perlman. Ruth was not only the cofounder of Mattel, but she also invented Barbie and named it after her daughter, Barbara Handler. And if you remember, Barbie even uses Barbara Handler as her real-world name at the end of the film.
Naming Barbie after Barbara was fitting, since Ruth was inspired to create the doll after seeing her daughter playing with paper dolls.
And while Ruth died 21 years ago, Barbara is still alive and is 82 years old today.
Naturally, her connection to the doll and its legacy made people think she had a cameo in Barbie in the scene where Barbie is talking to an older woman at the bus stop:
Here's a headline about it from the Daily Mail UK:
Here's a tweet that went viral about it too:
that scene in the barbie movie where barbie tells that old woman that she’s so beautiful and she says “i know it” and now finding out that’s THE barbara handler aka the daughter of the inspiration of barbie pic.twitter.com/xvgHJb52GN
However, this is NOT Barbara. It's actually Ann Roth, a 91-year-old, Oscar-winning costume designer who is a friend of the film's director, Greta Gerwig.
In an interview with the New York Times, Greta said she added the scene because she wanted a moment of someone maternal letting Barbie know she was OK, saying, "The idea of a loving God who’s a mother, a grandmother — who looks at you and says, 'Honey, you’re doing OK' — is something I feel like I need and I wanted to give to other people."
And honestly, in a movie full of just great scenes, this one was a standout. Ann was perfect in it.
While Barbara might not have a cameo in the movie, she did tell TMZ back in April, after the first trailer dropped, that she thought it looked "super cute" and that Margot "nailed the starring role." And she also added that she thought her mother, Ruth, would "be pleased to see the doll come to life on the big screen."
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