What Was Cut From the ‘Barbie’ Movie? Kisses, Cameos and More

It looks as if Barbie has all the things — lady energy, large laughs, extra shades of pink than any of Us knew existed — however director Greta Gerwig needed to minimize just a few issues from the large blockbuster.

All of the Fart Jokes

Gerwig admitted that she and movie editor Nick Houy needed to get a number of flatulence quips in Barbie, however they simply couldn’t to squeeze them in.

“We had like a fart opera within the center [of Barbie]. I assumed it was actually humorous,” Gerwig recalled on a July 2023 episode of IndieWire‘s “Filmmaker Toolkit” podcast. “And that was not the consensus.”

“It was within the flawed place, too,” Houy added. “We have to work it right into a extra vital narrative second subsequent time.”

Gerwig added that she needed to get fart jokes into Woman Chicken or Little Ladies, however they agreed to scrap the gassy quips “about two-thirds by the edit” every time.

Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet’s Cameos

Whereas Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling starred as the primary Barbie and Ken within the movie, which hit theaters on Friday, July 21, Gerwig meant to have Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet play small roles. She beforehand directed the duo in her solo directorial debut, Woman Chicken, in 2017 in addition to her 2019 remake of Little Ladies.

“Properly, it was all the time going to must be a type of smaller factor as a result of [Ronan] was truly producing on the time, which I’m so happy with her for. And naturally, it’s good. However it was going to be a specialty cameo,” Gerwig instructed CinemaBlend in an interview printed earlier this month.

Sadly, the scheduling didn’t work out for Ronan, after which comparable obstacles prevented Chalamet from showing. “I used to be additionally going to do a specialty cameo with Timmy, and each of them couldn’t do it and I used to be so aggravated. However I like them a lot,” Gerwig shared.

Barbie and Ken’s Kiss

Barbie just isn’t a really romantic film. Although Robbie’s Barbie is courting Gosling’s Ken, the doll would moderately have each evening be women evening, and neither of them have any thought what Ken is meant to do if he sleeps over on the Dreamhouse.

Nevertheless, Gosling revealed that he and Robbie did make an try to determine what a smooch would appear like between the 2 characters.

“It was so humorous making an attempt to determine what their thought of kissing could be,” Gosling instructed Individuals through the joint interview with Robbie earlier this month. “I’m so glad all of that acquired minimize out.”

Emma Mackey and Margot Robbie’s Lookalike Joke

“I’ve been getting instructed for years that I appear like the lady from Intercourse Training, who’s Emma Mackey,” Robbie instructed BuzzFeed in early July. “She performs one of many Barbies within the film just about as a result of Greta and I assumed it might be humorous. We had been gonna do that complete joke about us trying comparable.”

Mackey regarded rather more like Robbie when she had blonde hair within the early episodes of the Netflix hit, which debuted in 2019. Nevertheless, after Mackey returned to her pure brunette locks and framed her face with bangs, the joke didn’t fairly land.

“As soon as we acquired all dressed up as our Barbies, we had been form of like, ‘We don’t truly look that comparable,’” Robbie recalled with fun. “Like, when she’s acquired her brown hair and I’ve acquired my blonde hair, we don’t look that comparable, so we didn’t put that joke within the film.”

Nonetheless, Robbie accepts compliments for Mackey’s work. “When folks come up and say, ‘I cherished you in Intercourse Training,’ I simply say, ‘Thanks. Thanks a lot,’” Robbie mentioned.

Whereas the lookalike joke was in the end minimize from the Barbie film, Gerwig and Robbie, who served as an government producer on the movie, made it fairly clear that they large Intercourse Training followers. Mackey’s Netflix costars Ncuti Gatwa and Connor Swindells seem in Barbie as a Ken and a Mattel intern, respectively.

Bizarre Barbie and Ken’s Scene

In a behind-the-scenes picture launched by Warner Bros., Bizarre Barbie (Kate McKinnon) is seen lounging in a Dreamhouse pool with Ken fortunately lays his head in her lap. The picture reveals Bizarre Barbie with a hand on Ken’s naked chest whereas Gerwig covers her mouth, seemingly holding again laughter. Was Ken going to maneuver on with Bizarre Barbie? Was Ken going to lastly discover out what to do at a sleepover? We could by no means know — however we’d love to search out out what was happening on this deleted scene.

Whereas a number of moments needed to find yourself on the reducing room ground, Gerwig saved the scene that was essential to her — a short second the place Barbie sees an older lady in the true world and tells her she’s lovely.

“I like that scene a lot,” Gerwig instructed Rolling Stone in an interview printed on July 3. “And the older lady on the bench is the costume designer Ann Roth. She’s a legend. It’s a cul-de-sac of a second, in a means — it doesn’t lead wherever. And in early cuts, trying on the film, it was recommended, ‘Properly, you may minimize it. And really, the story would transfer on simply the identical.’ And I mentioned, ‘If I minimize the scene, I don’t know what this film is about.’”

She added, “That’s how I noticed it. To me, that is the center of the film. The way in which Margot performs that second is so mild and so unforced. There’s the extra outrageous parts within the film that folks say, ‘Oh, my God, I can’t imagine Mattel allow you to do that,’ or, ‘I can’t imagine Warner Bros. allow you to do that.’ However to me, the half that I can’t imagine that’s nonetheless within the film is that this little cul-de-sac that doesn’t lead wherever — aside from, it’s the center of the film.”

Barbie is in theaters now.