Greta Gerwig co-signs Jo Koy’s joke about Barbie and her ‘big boobies’: ‘He was right on’

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Barbie” director Greta Gerwig said Wednesday that she agrees with Jo Koy‘s joke that her box office hit was based “on a plastic doll with big boobies.” The joke came during Koy’s opening monologue for Sunday’s award ceremony, where he stated that: “‘Oppenheimer’ is based on a 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project, and ‘Barbie’ is on a plastic doll with big boobies.”Despite being slammed on social media by one netizen who called the joke sexist, Gerwig admitted that Koy, 52, had a point. “Well, he’s not wrong,” Gerwig, 40, laughed while chatting with BBC Radio 4’s “Today” program. “She’s the first doll that was mass-produced with breasts, so he was right on.”“Barbie, by her very construction, has no character, no story; she’s there to be projected upon,” she continued. “And you know, I think that so much of the project of the movie was unlikely because it is about a plastic doll.” The “Lady Bird” director also praised Ruth Handler, the creator of the first Barbie, for her insight in making the doll a clean slate for girls to project themselves onto. “The insight that Ruth Handler had when she was watching her daughter play with baby dolls is she realized, ‘My daughter doesn’t want to pretend to be a mother.

She wants to pretend to be a grown woman.’ “According to Gerwig, the popular Mattel doll has played many roles since coming out in 1959. “She’s been a villain, and she’s been a hero,” said Gerwig, who added that “Barbie has always been sometimes ahead of culture, sometimes behind culture, and she’s always been a flashpoint for arguments.” “There’s never been a time when I wasn’t familiar with both the desire that Barbie inspired and all the arguments against Barbie,” she said.