The Barbie Movie Is Empowering Women to End Relationships

Jun 01, 2024

The Barbie-Oppenheimer double bill hit the cinema screens last weekend.

And it’s safe to say the internet had a lot to say about it.

And social media is flooded with stories of women who say they deeply reconsidered their relationships after seeing the hit Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling film.

But Greta Gerwig’s 2023 interpretation has been particularly headline-grabbing.

But it’s commercial success isn’t the only shock impact of the film.

Keep scrolling to find out why…

The Australian actress made her breakthrough performance in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

And she has gone on to appear in hit movies, such as Suicide Squad (2016), I, Tonya (2017), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).

You’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn’t know who she is.

The new movie is written and directed by Greta Gerwig and follows Robbie’s character as she leaves Barbieland behind and takes on the real world.

And fans were so eager to find out more about her role, that photos from the set were leaked online.

Which showed Robbie and Gosling’s characters dressed in neon spandex.

“The Barbie movie photo leaks feel like a fever dream. Did that actually happen? Is there actually a movie? Is Margot actually Robbie?”

The actress has recently revealed she was “mortified” to find out about the leaked photos.

Sharing her thoughts on the whole ordeal while also promoting her new movie Amsterdam.

“We look like we’re like laughing and having fun, but dying on the inside. Dying. I was like, this is the most humiliating moment of my life.”

“No!” Robbie said. “I mean, I knew that we had some exteriors to shoot in L.A. I knew, OK, once you were doing exteriors, you’re gonna get papped.”

“So I knew there was going to be a little bit of attention, and probably some photos would get out there, but not like it did. It was like mad. It was like hundreds of people watching.”

Gosling’s character was also filmed screaming after Barbie punches a man who gropes her.

Since then, Robbie has no doubt become one of the biggest stars in Hollywood, but we bet you didn’t know something about one scene in her movie, Wolf of Wall Street.

While the Australian actress played a big part in the success of the movie, she was bold enough and insisted on going nude in her big breakthrough role.

According to LADbible, her role featured numerous s*xual scenes, including a full-frontal nude scene. Robbie even admitted she was apprehensive about the scenes being immortalized on the internet.

“But I also think it’s disgusting when someone would have got n*ked in real life, in the film they conveniently leave their bra on, or hold up the bed sheet. Seeing someone being choreographed into being covered up irritates me just as much,” she said.And she carried on and said she put out her suggestions to the director too.

Robbie even reflected on shooting a memorable seduction scene in the movie, she told Porter in a 2018 interview: “It doesn’t come across when you’re watching the movie, but in reality, we’re in a tiny bedroom with 30 crew crammed in.”

However, it seems the success that followed the movie wasn’t exactly what Robbie wanted…

“Something was happening in those early stages and it was all pretty awful,” she said.

“And she just looked at me, completely straight-faced, and was like, ‘Darling, I think it’s too late not to,’” Robbie continued.

Robbie particularly had to learn how to cope with the paparazzi.“I know how to go through airports, and now I know who’s trying to f–k me over in what ways.

“It’s dangerous but still weirdly nothing feels like it changes,” Robbie said.

“And I guess if you’re lucky, it all balances out in the middle,” she concluded.

And that scene was the s*x scene with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Though on-screen, Robbie looked completely calm and collected, she admitted that she felt “very, very nervous” inside.

“Honestly, I know it sounds silly now, knowing how big the movie became, at the time I thought, ‘no one is going to notice me in this film.’

Robbie added: “And I was just kind of like, ‘I’ll slip under the radar.’”

Because the Barbie movie is taking the world by storm.

And there was one aspect of the trailer that particularly captured the internet’s attention!

One user tweeted: “The first shot of the Barbie The Movie trailer is a shot of Margot Robbie’s feet. They know there’s a massive group of guys that will pay to see this in IMAX.”

Another tweeted: “Margot Robbie’s feet really about to make me buy a ticket to Barbie!”

The trailer shows Robbie as Barbie stepping out of her high-heeled shoes – while her feet retain that signature Barbie shape.

But it’s true that her feet do look pretty perfect.

Right?

And Robbie’s recent Barbie promo look then had everybody talking.

Rocking a pastel pink custom Vivienne Westwood gown.

The dress has enormous shoulder ruffles.

Many are calling it her boldest Barbie look yet.

The Barbie movie opened on the same day as Christopher Nolan’s biographical epic, Oppenheimer, which details the invention of the atomic bomb.

But, predictably, the Barbie movie has offended some of the internet’s most snowflake-y men.

Christian Toto added: “Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling can’t save story captured by man-hating agenda.”

You can take a look right here …

While the current verified audience review (made up of those who can prove they bought a ticket) is at 88%, the general audience score has dropped to 73%.

However, the controversies continue – A shocking Barbie fight took the internet by storm …

It shows one woman throwing another to the ground as the movie’s credits roll.

You can watch the altercation right here …

And more recently, Indian actress Juhi Parmar who went to see Barbie with her 10-year-old daughter, has slammed the “inappropriate” scenes throughout the film, via a long social media post.

“I start with owning up to my mistake,” she wrote in the Barbie-themed post. “I took my 10-year-old daughter Samairra to watch your film without researching the fact that it was a ‘PG-13’ movie.”

She then revealed she had to leave the movie theatre immediately, along side other parents who’s children were even crying.

And social media is full of stories of women who say they deeply reconsidered their relationships after seeing the film.

“Thank you, ‘Barbie’ for empowering me, for giving me the confidence, for making me realize I deserve better,” she said.

“are you crying???” you’re just a guy and you’ll never understand how difficult it is to be a woman in a man’s world. there’s this attention to detail that a lot of men don’t have.”

After the movie, “we amicably came together to recognize that we’re just not on the same wavelength,” she explained. “We could argue till the end of time what gender/sex has a tougher time going through life.”What do you think?