Life’s fantastic when you’re plastic — but it may reap horrors on the global supply chain.
According to a new interview with the upcoming plastic doll biopic’s director, the production of the highly anticipated “Barbie” caused a very on-brand shortage.
“The world,” Greta Gerwig, 39, told Architectural Digest for a recent home profile of Barbie’s Dreamhouse, “ran out of pink.”
Specifically, the film, set to star the Aussie Margot Robbie in the titule role, ran out of a fluorescent shade of Rosco brand pink paint, which was used extensively on the film’s three-story set at the Warner Bros. Studios lot just outside London.
In addition to being aggressively pink-colored, the home of the “Barbie” protagonist is also not ideal for anyone who isn’t an exhibitionist.
“There are no walls and no doors,” Gerwig told the publication. “Dreamhouses assume that you never have anything you wish was private — there is no place to hide.”
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Production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer also cite the midcentury-modern homes of Palm Springs as major influences on the live-action doll house. Even the movie’s surroundings, with palm trees and mountains in the distance, resemble the Southern California resort city.
Their final creation, where Barbie will call home in the film and set to hit theaters on July 21, features a walk-in closet with toy-box outfit displays, a slide-equipped pool, and first-level living and dining rooms, among other amenities.
Greenwood and Spencer are far from the first to make the miniature Mattel abode a reality — Barbie fans across the globe have been doing as much for years.
One UK interior designer and fitness instructor converted her own “boring” beige crib into a “Barbie World” of her own, while a Brazilian TikTok creator spent almost $200,000 turning her property into a Barbie Dreamhouse.
Bruna “Barbie” Carolina Peres not only lives in a human-sized Dreamhouse but has become a real life version of the character.
