Margot Robbie On The Sexualization Of Barbie & Why She Wanted To Cast Gal Gadot
deadline.comMargot Robbie is opening up about Barbie and the sexualization of the doll. The star of the Greta Gerwig-directed film also reveals that she wanted to get Gal Gadot In a new interview with Vogue, Robbie talks about the controversy regarding the sexualization of Barbie. “She’s a doll.
She’s a plastic doll. She doesn’t have organs. If she doesn’t have organs, she doesn’t have reproductive organs. If she doesn’t have reproductive organs, would she even feel sexual desire?
No, I don’t think she could,” Robbie told the magazine. She continued, “She is sexualized. But she should never be sexy. People can project sex onto her.
Yes, she can wear a short skirt, but because it’s fun and pink. Not because she wanted you to see her butt.” Robbie said that she envisioned the star of Wonder Woman, Gal Gadot, as a Barbie because she gave “Barbie energy.” “Gal Gadot is Barbie energy,” Robbie said. “Because Gal Gadot is so impossibly beautiful, but you don’t hate her for being that beautiful because she’s so genuinely sincere, and she’s so enthusiastically kind, that it’s almost dorky.
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