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Sarah El-Mahmoud

Apparently Creating Barbie's World In The Margot Robbie Movie Required So Much Pink Paint That It Caused An International Shortage

Margot Robbie's Barbie waving to Barbie World

With Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie less than two months away, it’s starting to feel like we’re about to live in a Barbie world given the phenomenon the movie looks like it’s about to become. Along with Barbiecore sweeping celebrity fashion trends, we have to wonder where else bright pink might pop up. Perhaps fans of one of summer’s most anticipated 2023 new movie releases will look to the incredible set design for Barbie’s world. Paint companies be warned, the fluorescent shade already had an international shortage while Barbie was being filmed. 

That’s right, when the set for Barbie Land was being created at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in England, production designer Sarah Greenwood recalled the movie causing the Rosco paint to seriously run low on the particular shade of bright pink found all over Barbie’s home. As Greenwood said: 

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