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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

‘Just joy’: Greta Gerwig discusses reaction to Barbie at London film festival

Jesse Armstrong and Greta Gerwig talk at the 67th BFI London film festival on 8 October.
Greta Gerwig: ‘I like working in public, but at some point it felt like performance art.’ Photograph: Joe Maher/Getty Images for BFI

Greta Gerwig has spoken of her “thrill” at the “incredible reaction” to Barbie, her existential comedy and the runaway hit film of the year.

Talking to Succession and Peep Show co-creator Jesse Armstrong at an audience during the London film festival at the BFI Southbank, Gerwig, 40, recalled standing covertly at the back of cinemas in New York during the film’s opening weekend, asking the projectors to “turn up the volume” and being “so moved” by the warmth of audience response.

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