We are less than a month away from Greta Gerwig's Barbie hitting theaters, and it is arguably the most highly anticipated movie of the summer, if not the year.
Directed by Greta and written by Greta and Noah Baumbach, Barbie is set to follow Barbie (Margot Robbie) as she lives in Barbie Land with Ken (Ryan Gosling) and other Barbies and Kens. However, one day, Barbie decides to take a trip to the real world.
And while Barbie has been really mysterious up to this point — I mean, the exact plot is still kind of under lock and key — with the press tour ramping up, we're starting to find out more and more about how this movie came to life.
From a reported pink paint shortage to how they designed Barbie's iconic Dreamhouse, I would literally watch an entire feature-length documentary about how the cast and crew pulled off this movie. And everything we learn about Barbie makes the internet go wild.
The film hasn't even been released yet but has already taken the internet by storm. Posters revealing the various Barbies and Kens went viral, the tagline for the movie created a new Twitter meme, and every trailer gets people more and more excited.
In particular, one moment from one of the first trailers that stunned everyone was the opening shot of Barbie and her arched feet.
Like, Barbie standing on her tiptoes just like the real Mattel Barbies do was so iconic, and from this moment on, I knew Greta and Margot had really thought of everything.
And now, Margot is explaining how they achieved that small but simply amazing moment in the movie. And yes, it was really Margot doing it.
She explained, "I walked up. We had little sticky bits on the floor. Like, double-sided tape for the shoes so I could get my feet out of them. And I was holding onto like a bar. I wasn't [in] a harness or anything like that."
She added, "I just walked up, kind of held onto the bar above camera."
Margot said that it took "probably about eight takes" to get the moment just right, and man, did it pay off.
In movies, sometimes close-ups of the actors hands, feet, etc. — aka "inserts" — are done by a double, but Margot said she made it clear that she wanted to be the one to do this small moment.
"I always try to do my own inserts," she said. "I don't like when I watch a movie and I know it's not my hands. I hate that so much. I always say to the director, 'Please let me do all my own things.' I don't like knowing that I didn't do it."
All of the small details for how Barbie moves like a real doll have already become fan-favorite moments. Alongside Barbie's tiptoes scene, a poster showing Margot holding a steering wheel like a Barbie also went viral when it was released.
