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\u201cMy name is Greta Gerwig, and I am the co-writer and director of \u2018Barbie.\u2019\u201d \u201c(SINGING) I\u2019m just Ken. Anywhere else, I\u2019d be a ten.\u201d \u201cThe thing that I can say most about this sequence is that this was the thing that I most knew what I wanted it to be, and no one else knew what I wanted it to be. Every time I look at this, it\u2019s just the ridiculousness of how we did it, which is they\u2019re obviously arriving on these pedalos on a beach that has no water. It\u2019s a solid mass with these waves that are sculptures. And I had everyone in this scene pretend to be moving in slow motion except for Ryan, who\u2019s singing. And I think I got four takes into it, and I thought, this just \u2014 is this so ridiculous that I\u2019m doing pretend slow motion? But then I thought, I think I just have to commit. Now I\u2019ve done it. There\u2019s nothing else I can do. My stunt coordinator, Roy Taylor, who\u2019s a brilliant, brilliant person, and he worked with my choreographer, Jenny White, because I wanted all the fighting to be somewhere between dancing and a kind of vaudevillian ridiculousness of a Buster Keaton or a Charlie Chaplin. I love that kind of physical comedy. So you see men tangoing in the background in addition to fighting. Because they\u2019re Kens, they\u2019re children. It all sort of goes together.\u201d \u201cAh!\u201d \u201cAh! Ah!\u201d \u201cThen we have our Barbies, who are sort of watching with their pink boilersuits, which I think Jacqueline Durran, who is the costume designer, she did the pink boilersuits because I wore boilersuits every day. And she was like, I\u2019ve decided what the Barbies will wear when they\u2019re taking back Barbieland. And I cried when I saw it because I was like, oh, it\u2019s a tribute to me. So much of this sequence is the song that Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt wrote, which was not in the script. But I did ask them because they were writing the song that became Dua Lipa\u2019s \u2018Dance the Night.\u2019 I said we need a Ken song, and I think it goes in the battle. And then they wrote this song from the perspective of Ken. And then I said, Ryan, are you up for singing this? And he said yes, ultimately. But initially, I don\u2019t know. I think he was like, you never said anything about this at the beginning. But I think they sent me 30 seconds of an idea for the song, that I just loved. And then I was like, Can you make it 11 minutes long? Because I want it to go through this whole sequence. And then this part, this dream ballet part, Sarah Greenwood, who is a production designer, and Katie Spencer built this stage to echo the dream ballet stage from \u2018Singin\u2019 in the Rain\u2019 because I love that movie. And that has one of the best dream ballets of all time because they have a dream ballet that is inside of another dream ballet, which, I think, when people are like, will anyone understand this? I was like, yes. There is a context for this. They\u2019ll grasp it. And every Ken, every Barbie, is a dancer the whole time. And then I chose all the actors, too, because they were good dancers. Jenny White, who was my choreographer, she and I looked at a lot of different musicals, different dream ballets. But Busby Berkeley was a huge reference.\u201d \u201c(SINGING) I\u2019m just Ken. Anywhere else, I\u2019d be a ten.\u201d \u201cI kind of love that \u2018we\u2019re putting on a show\u2019 element of this movie, which is very connected to theater and also the pleasure of making something in a childlike way. And we started with dance rehearsals, and I think it was a good way to put everybody in that mindset of it\u2019s not about perfection. It\u2019s about this joy. And they obviously embodied that. In a way, you want the audience to walk out and say, I\u2019d like to go make something. I want to go play. I want to go set something up. I want to do a performance. And that\u2019s how I felt when I watched a lot of movies when I was a kid, or theater. I instantly was like, I\u2019m going to organize my own version of \u2018Starlight Express\u2019 right now.\u201d \u201c(SINGING) Nobody else Nobody else I\u2019m just Ken.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n