Unlike many blockbuster 2023 new movie releases, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie is no CGI fest. The movie had its production designer and set decorator really painting all the hot pink of Barbie Land, and as one can imagine, yes, it required a lot of cans of pink paint to do so. The production designer Sarah Greenwood even previously said “the world ran out of pink” as a result of bringing the plastic world to life. But, as Greenwood has now clarified, Barbie is not responsible for an international pink paint shortage as an influx of headlines previously claimed.
Greenwood is now walking back on her comments about the creation of Barbie Land at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in England after she went viral for talking about an international pink paint shortage. Here’s what she had to say:
