America Ferrera's Powerful 'Barbie' Movie Monologue Goes Viral - Read the Full Speech
justjared.comWARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD! America Ferrera‘s performance in the Barbie movie is a highlight, especially her incredible monologue towards the end of the film.
The movie’s exploration of what it’s like to be a woman in the real world packs an unexpected punch, especially when subversively served up within the plastic perfection of Barbie Land, and America Ferrera‘s speech as Gloria in the movie is perhaps the hardest-hitting moment. Greta Gerwig told The Cut that she wrote the monologue herself, but that she and America “would text each other anything related to it” over several months until they came to a final version. Keep reading to find out more… In the film, Gloria and her daughter Sasha, played by Ariana Greenblatt, help save Barbie Land from a patriarchal takeover by Ken (Ryan Gosling), and Gloria delivers an emotional monologue about being a woman.
Here is the full transcript: “It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don’t think you’re good enough.
Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we’re always doing it wrong. “You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin.
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