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BARBIE

“Making a Barbie movie was an amazing opportunity, one we thought we could do something really

special with if we could approach it in an unexpected, surprising and clever way. We knew it was a lot to

take on, as audiences probably have a preconceived notion of how they think and feel about Barbie,

whether good or bad. So, that presented a big challenge, but we were up for the challenge.”

– Margot Robbie

KEN

“My Ken was created to just observe the awesomeness that is Barbie, and there’s even a line in the film

when he says he only exists within the warmth of Barbie’s gaze. He has no identity of his own, so he’s in

a kind of existential hell. But he’s given a job, which is ‘beach.’ And he’s not sure what that job is

specifically, but he really wants to be good at it.”– Ryan Gosling

GLORIA

“Gloria is the ‘every woman.’ At work she’s low on the totem pole. She has longtime dreams of climbing

up the ladder and influencing the brand she works on. I didn’t grow up playing with Barbies or think that

I had any relationship to Barbie, but we all do, because she’s such a part of our culture.”

– America Ferrara

WEIRD BARBIE

“If you asked me to pick a role for myself, it would be this Barbie. My sister had a bunch of Barbies

whose hair she brushed and whose clothes she cared for, but there was one receptacle of her ire that

got its head shaved. You keep a Barbie with her legs splayed as far as they will go – it’s just a Barbie that

every little girl grew up with.”– Kate McKinnon

KEN

Kens are just Kens. They just hang around and a lot of their identity is derived from being able to win the

gaze of the Barbies, and so they are really just kind of hypercompetitive about really dumb things. It’s

revealed that my Ken is a skilled dancer, and he can do backflips and Ryan’s Ken really resents that.”

– Simu Liu

PRESIDENT BARBIE

“The most flattering thing in the world is when Greta said, ‘You know, when I was thinking about who I

wanted to be President in this world, I thought wouldn‘t it be cool if Issa were President?’ And I was like,

‘What, me?’ To have the opportunity to play President of all the Barbies, even though all Barbies can do

anything and are capable of everything, is such a treat.”

– Issa Rae

ALLAN

“The way that Greta and Noah handle my character in the movie is that Allan’s sort of this marginalized

person in this world of Kens; he’s basically not a success or popular. He’s just a loner, always on the

periphery, desperate to fit in but really just not on the same wavelength as the Ken fraternity around

him.”– Michael Cera

MATTEL CEO

“Greta encouraged us to improvise, and that encouraged more ideas between myself, Jamie Demetriou

and Connor Swindells. It gave us the chance to really feel like we were a team and know each other and

play off of each other, to bicker amongst each other and give this silly framework to this big, important

CEO and his lackeys. It was fun to create this dynamic between us that we're all fumbling and

bumbling.”– Will Ferrell