‘Barbie’ Casting Directors On Why Bowen Yang, Dan Levy & Ben Platt Didn’t End Up Playing Kens
deadline.comBarbie casting directors Lucy Bevan and Allison Jones are spilling the tea on how they landed with the perfect set of Barbies and Kens. “We needed actors who could get the fact that our Barbies only knew pleasant things,” Jones told Vanity Fair during a recent interview.
Margot Robbie plays “Stereotypical Barbie” while Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Mackey, Ana Cruz Kayne, and Dua Lipa, to name a few, play different variants of Barbie.
Ryan Gosling landed the role of “Beach Ken” with Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Scott Evans, Ncuti Gatwa, and John Cena, to name a few, playing other versions of Ken.
Due to Covid restrictions, some potential Kens were not able to make the shoots in London where they would’ve had to spend three months.
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