“Barbie” director Greta Gerwig isn’t letting Jo Koy’s Golden Globes jokes in regards to the record-breaking movie get to her.
Throughout an interview with BBC Radio on Wednesday, she gave her stamp of approval to the comic’s polarizing comparability of “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”
“‘Oppenheimer’ is based on the 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project — and ‘Barbie’ is about a plastic doll with big boobies,” he mentioned all the way through his opening monologue, rubbing some enthusiasts the incorrect manner.
“Well, he’s not wrong,” Gerwig, 40, bluntly said.
“She’s the first doll that was mass-produced with breasts, so he was right on.”
She persevered, “And you recognize, I believe that such a lot of the mission of the film was once not likely as a result of it's a few plastic doll.
“The insight that [Barbie’s creator] Ruth Handler had when she was watching her daughter play with baby dolls, is she realized, ‘My daughter doesn’t want to pretend to be a mother. She wants to pretend to be a grown woman.'”
In fact, she adversarial the masses of enthusiasts who have been disgusted through Koy’s “Barbie” jabs.
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Audience rushed to social media to specific their dismay together with his feedback all the way through the Golden Globes, labeling them as sexist and claiming they proved all the level of the “Barbie” film, which was once to spotlight ladies’s struggles in a male-dominated international.
“Saying ‘Oppenheimer’ was based on a great work and dismissing Barbie as a movie based on a doll with big boobs was so aggressively misogynistic in the face of all that Greta Gerwig and Margo Robbie accomplished it just turned me against Jo Koy the rest of the show,” one X person penned after listening to 52-year-old Koy’s opening monologue.
Sharing a equivalent sentiment, every other wrote, “Jo Koy reducing the Barbie movie to a movie about ‘big boobs’ when the entire plot of Barbie is how difficult it is to be a woman in a men’s (sic) world.”
“Jo Koy, who I have fortunately never heard of until today, making a sexist joke about the Barbie movie a the Golden Globes highlights exactly why the movie was made,” a 3rd disenchanted fan slammed.
“Men that exist solely to tear down the accomplishments of women, shift focus to their looks, and sexualize it in the process do not deserve to have a platform like the one he had last night.”
Whilst “Oppenheimer” took house a number of awards from the rite, “Barbie” become the primary mission to win the Golden Globe for cinematic and field place of job success — even beating out Taylor Swift’s “Eras Tour” movie.
Gerwig mirrored at the second she were given to take the level with the solid of “Barbie” as a “wonderful and emotional” revel in.
“To be able to take the stage with the group that made it … felt very fitting because I think for all of us the thing that we wanted most of all was to connect with people and have people share an experience in the cinemas, in the movie theaters,” she shared.
“Even though this was a brand new award, it felt like it was the award to honor that and that was always what we had wanted to do. It was very full circle.”