After a blockbuster summer season on the field place of work, Barbie is after all streaming — with an excessively particular added function.
The Greta Gerwig-directed hit was to be had on Max on Friday, December 15, and lovers had been happy to find an strategy to view the film with an American Signal Language (ASL) interpreter. Consistent with a press free up from Warner Bros., the ASL model of Barbie seems within the app as a novel name with the signal language image integrated within the film artwork.
All the way through the film, ASL interpreter Leila Hanaumi is proven within the decrease nook of the display screen signing for each and every persona. Hanaumi is an completed ASL performer whose different credit come with Deaf Austin Theatre’s The Laramie Mission and an ASL duvet of Tove Lo’s “True Romance” tune video.
“By offering sign language interpretation, we will build upon the film’s empowering message of inclusiveness and offer a unique viewing experience for the Deaf community to enjoy with family and friends,” Casey Bloys, HBO and Max chairman and CEO, stated within the press free up.
Hanaumi introduced the collaboration with an Instagram video through which she and Barbie big name Margot Robbie signal the movie’s catchphrase, “Hi Barbie!” Lovers within the feedback phase gushed over the addition and its affect.
“I’ve seen Barbie a million times and I put it on again just now without realizing it was the ASL version,” one fan wrote. “I immediately started crying because you are so beautiful and what you’re giving to the world is beyond amazing. You’re portraying every character with so much passion and enthusiasm.”
A 2nd viewer added, “You were the perfect ‘ASL Barbie’ for this film, thank you for making our little dreams come true.” Others praised Hanaumi’s dedication to nailing the mannerisms of each and every persona. “Her physical comedy in Barbie was really a stroke of genius,” one fan commented.
The ASL model of Barbie has additionally made waves on TikTok. “This is amazing, and a great way to learn ASL!!” one person captioned a video of the film taking part in on a TV display screen. “Barbie’s ASL girl is the best!” stated some other, sharing clips of Hanaumi decoding probably the most musical numbers within the movie.
Barbie broke some primary field place of work data after its premiere in July. No longer best did the comedy have the largest opening weekend of the 12 months, surpassing all of 2023’s Wonder motion pictures, however it additionally had the largest field place of work opening ever for a film directed through a lady. Barbie’s used to be the largest three-day opening for a film in line with a toy, exceeding the entire Transformers motion pictures.
Via August, the movie hit $1 billion on the field place of work, a milestone that Gerwig promised the studio when pitching the theory.
“I gave a series of examples like, ‘dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg,’ that and that, that and that — pretty much naming anything that’s been incredible and made a ton of money for the studios over the years,” she recalled in a July interview with Collider. “And I was like, ‘And now you’ve got Barbie and Greta Gerwig.’”
She concluded, “I think I told them that it’d make a billion dollars, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make.”