If you're anything like us, next month's Barbie film release is the best thing to happen all summer (well, apart from holidays etc) and we are lapping up every preview still and clip we can get our hands on. So, imagine our pure delight at a video that's just been released showing Margot Robbie giving us the most detailed look at Barbie's Dreamhouse we've seen yet.
The video tour, which appears on Architectural Digest's YouTube channel is a proper peek inside the real-life set of Barbie's Dreamhouse, with details on how it was constructed and designed, including the varying shades of pink paint that was used (it's been reported that the movie led to a worldwide shortage of pink paint during filming) and where some of the ideas came from.
The video opens like an episode of MTV Cribs, with Margot Robbie opening the cerise-shaded pink doors of her character's home: “Welcome to Barbie's Dreamhouse, come on in…”
Margot proceeds to do a full tour. “This is my breakfast table and kitchen…here's the fun little bar and the slide that goes from the bedroom down into the pool.” She adds: “Not super practical, but nothing is for Barbie.”
Viewers are given a glimpse into the props. “It's just so fun and gorgeous and it's see-through so we can see each other. All the Barbies in their own Barbie Dreamhouses," says Robbie.
In the video director Greta Gerwig gives us a glimpse of the amount of pink shades that was used on the set, saying to the camera: “I can’t even tell you the meetings we had about pink." Gerwig reveals, “I wanted to capture what was so ridiculously fun about the Dreamhouses. We sat with all these different kinds of pinks and we were like, ‘What is the pink? How do the pinks interact?’ When I was a girl, I wanted the brightest things.”
The tour details how the team wanted the Barbie film set to give a nod to the dollhouses that all adults and children grew up playing with. Inside the fridge, for example, there's a 2D illustration of food and drink to emphasise the ‘pretend’ element. The shower doesn't really work nor is there any water in the pool. “There is no water in Barbieland” Robbie says in the video. The toothbrushes and hair brushes are over-sized too, further adding to the toy-like effect the team was after.
Margot recalled having that one special request and said she asked Gerwig. “Please, please, please can we have a Dreamhouse where she has a slide that goes from her bedroom down to her pool because that is my goal in life." And that's exactly what she got.
Set Decorator, Kate Spencer says in the video that the house was influenced by late 1950s to 1960s design and the modernist furniture coming through at the time, with an element of a mid-century Palm Springs home and, of course, of the actual Mattel Dreamhouses themselves.
We've also given a peek into the magical Clueless-style pink wardrobe that houses all of Barbie’s clothing and accessories, inspired by the actual Barbie boxes you'd find inside a store. “All she has to do is look at it, gives a spin and then it's on her body, she walks off," says Robbie.
Fans have taken to social media to share their excitement.
Talk about whetting our appetite! Barbie film, we are so ready for you.
Barbie will be released in cinemas on 21st July.
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