“[Director Greta Gerwig said], There’s a monologue.
Meryl Streep says she would like to do this monologue.
I was like cool, no pressure!
America Ferrera in ‘Barbie’.Warner Bros. Pictures
Barbie Land advisory: This article contains spoilers forBarbie.
Ryan Goslinghas seen hisBarbiecostarAmerica Ferrera’s TED Talk, much to her endearing surprise.
“You watched my TED Talk?”
Margot Robbie, Alexandra Shipp, Michael Cera, America Ferrera, and Ariana Greenblatt in ‘Barbie’.Warner Bros. Pictures
‘It feels so true.
Your TED Talk is a great example.”
“Greta didn’t make it easy,” she says.
Margot Robbie in ‘Barbie’.Warner Bros. Pictures
“You were like, ‘There’s a monologue.Meryl Streepsays she would like to do this monologue.
I was like cool, no pressure!'”
“My experience of the moment was that Greta gave me so much space and so much trust.
I obviously didn’t wanna eff it up.
I wanted to do it justice.”
“There’s no woman in my life that this isn’t true for,” Ferrera says.
“So like, how do you tell the truth?
That was the goal.”
She is an icon but she’s a very complicated one.
I feel like this movie’s the next evolution."
Watch Ferrera chat about her big monologue above.
For more Barbiesms, check out the fullAround the Tablebelow.Barbieis in theaters now.
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