‘SNL’ Offers Dark ‘American Girls’ Movie As ‘Barbie’ Alternative
deadline.comGreta Gerwig’s Barbie is one of the most anticipated movies of the summer. But Saturday Night Live offered an alternative, or a spinoff, if you like, with American Girls.
The dolls range, which was first released in 1986 by Pleasant Company, features a series of dolls of various ethnicities, faiths, and social classes from different time periods throughout history with accompanying stories.
This summer, according to SNL, comes a live-action movie about historically accurate dolls with their own “harrowing” backstory including an orphan from Victorian times, one doll whose friend died of cholera, one with glasses, one whose dad was a prisoner of war and one who was a runaway slave.
Heidi Gardner, Molly Kearney, Chloe Fineman, Sarah Sherman and host Ana De Armas portrayed the dolls in the sketch. “Not all dolls live in a dream, some are bigger, younger, sadder, some dolls are American Girls,” said the voiceover. “Did all their family members die of old timey diseases?
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