"People hear Barbie and think, 'I know what that movie is going to be,'" Margot Robbie has said, "and then they hear that Greta Gerwig is writing and directing it, and they're like, 'Oh, well, maybe I don't...'"
The first teaser trailer for Gerwig's Barbie proved as much when, of all movies in the history of movies, it riffed on 2001: A Space Odyssey. Because, when you think of the Barbie doll, who doesn't instantly think of Stanley Kubrick's esoteric sci-fi masterpiece? A new trailer is similarly light on plot specifics but provides a better sense of what to expect from the pastel-hued motion picture, which stars Robbie as (a? the?) Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken. "To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken." Watch the trailer below.
Barbie is Gerwig's follow-up to 2019's Oscar-nominated Little Women and 2017's Oscar-nominated Lady Bird before that, directing from a screenplay she co-wrote with Noah Baumbach. Alongside the trailer, the studio released character posters revealing who in the cast is a Barbie and who's just a Ken.
Barbie arrives in theaters on July 21.
Margot Robbie as Barbie
Kate McKinnon Is Also Barbie
Issa Rae as President Barbie
Dua Lipa as Mermaid Barbie
Emma Mackey as Nobel Prize-Winning Barbie
Ritu Arya as Pulitzer Prize-Winning Barbie
Hari Nef as Doctor Barbie
Alexandra Shipp as Author Barbie
Nicola Coughlan as Diplomat Barbie
Ana Cruz Kayne as Supreme Court Barbie
Sharon Rooney as Lawyer Barbie
Ryan Gosling as Ken
Kingsley Ben-Adir as Another Ken
Simu Liu as Another Ken
Scott Evans as Another Ken
Ncuti Gatwa as Another Ken
Emerald Fennell as Midge
Michael Cera as Allan
America Ferrera Plays a Human
Ariana Greenblatt Also Plays a Human
Will Ferrell Is the CEO of Mattel
Jamie Demetriou as a Mattel Suit
Connor Swindells as a Mattel Intern (or Something)
Helen Mirren as the Narrator
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