Barbie has been a pop culture mainstay for over 50 years now, but the toy brand is experiencing a resurgence thanks to the Barbie movie starring Margot Robbie that’s just a month away from release. Of course, while Robbie’s take on the famed doll will be leading the show, we’ll meet various other Barbies along the way, as well as plenty of Kens, with the main one being played by Ryan Gosling. In fact, this 2023 new movie release may just be Ken’s biggest platform to shine yet, so much so that it’s delightful that ‘Ken-ergy’ has become an adjective.
The existence of this term was brought up while Margot Robbie and her costars Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae and American Ferrera chatted with Fandango’s Nat Perez. The correspondent brought up how “Barbie” was once used as a negative connotation, like for the “cool girl with pretty clothes” characters in movies. With the Barbie movie coming up, Perez mused that “He’s such a Ken” will start to be said, and she then asked the actresses how one can spot a Ken in everyday life. Robbie brought up how producers Tom Ackerly (her husband) and David Heyman exemplified Ken-ergy:
