Imagine, for one second, that you're enjoying stag do in a Scottish pub in the middle of nowhere, discussing Barbie, and Margot Robbie appears!
Barbie emerged as a phenomenon last summer and went on to gross an astonishing $1.44 billion at the box office. It is officially the most successful movie in history with a female director at the helm.
It sparked plenty of debate, too, including apparently during stag parties.
"I was in a pub in the middle of nowhere in Scotland and I listened for about 30 minutes to a group of guys on a bachelor party discussing the Barbie movie - not knowing that I was sitting two or three feet away from them," she said at a screening of Barbie this week.
"One guy was like, 'Dude, it is a cultural moment, don't you want to be a part of culture?' And the other guy was like, 'I'll never see it,' and by the end he did want to see it. It was a whole thing. I went to their table and I went 'Thank you for seeing the Barbie movie.' It was very funny, they lost it. It took a full minute for them to realise and I was practically out the door and they went 'Ohhhh'."
A stag do for the ages.
Barbie (2023)
'Barbie' follows one of the dolls who lives in Barbieland. She is expelled from school for not being perfect enough. She then decides to go on an adventure in the real world.
Directed by: Greta Gerwig
Stars:
Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera
Robbie reacts to Oscars snub
Barbie received a hugely positive critical response which led to eight Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Ryan Gosling and Best Supporting Actress for America Ferrera.
However, there were many movie fans left stunned when Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig failed to be nominated for Best Actress and Best Director, though the latter did receive a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay alongside Noah Baumbach.
When asked by Deadline how she felt about the snub, Robbie responded:
"There's no way to feel sad when you know you're this blessed.
"Obviously I think Greta should be nominated as a director, because what she did is a once-in-a-career, once-in-a-lifetime thing, what she pulled off, it really is. But it's been an incredible year for all the films.
"I just suspect it (Barbie) is bigger than us. It's bigger than this movie, it's bigger than our industry. I'm beyond ecstatic that we've got eight Academy Award nominations, it's so wild."
Robbie did gain an Academy Award nomination as a producer on the project via the Best Picture category.
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