When Margot Robbie first read the script for the Barbie film, which she stars in and co-produced, her first thought was: “They’re never going to let us make this movie.”
Mattel, the doll’s manufacturer, had jealously guarded her image for more than 60 years. It would never agree to a movie that not only riffed on Barbie’s sometimes controversial history, but included among its comic characters none other than a “weird and insensitive” CEO of Mattel. Right?
