Mark Ronson is hoping that Barbie might be Broadway sure.
Ronson, 48, mentioned he would “absolutely” need to partake in a musical model of the film whilst talking with journalists on the 2024 Critics Selection Awards on Sunday, January 14.
“I’m just waiting for the call,” he mentioned. “It would be amazing. Greta [Gerwig] basically made a musical that’s without calling it a musical, so we would love it.”
Ronson and cowriter Andrew Wyatt took house the award for Highest Tune on Sunday for the observe “I’m Just Ken!” carried out through Ryan Gosling within the movie.
“I think that we love music so much and we also love comedy. That’s our other bomb, but we’ve never been able to merge them,” Ronson mentioned of the music, including that the movie’s script was once “so inspiring” and the observe “came to us pretty quickly.”
Ronson additionally famous that he doesn’t know in the event that they’ll be “as lucky to get that kind of a script every time,” however they “really did love working on this.”
“Once we saw Ryan’s performance, as well, we were still making the song. We were like, ‘Oh my God, we’re going to have to dress the song up in the equivalent of a white mink and two sunglasses,’” he mentioned. “And then we called Slash… basically we were so inspired by everything.”
Ronson gave a shout out to Gosling, 43, in his acceptance speech for the award.
“Ryan Gosling, this is as much your award as ours,” Ronson mentioned. “You made the audience fall in love with this song with your matchless performance, so thank you.”
He additionally gave due to director Gerwig, 40, announcing, “The fact that you carved out 11 minutes for this prog-rock, power-ballad, dream-ballet, shred fest so the boys could cry and hold hands a little too, we’re really forever in your debt for that.”
Whilst Ronson took house the Critics Selection award on Sunday, he up to now misplaced his nomination for Highest Authentic Tune for each “I’m Just Ken” and Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” on the 2024 Golden Globes previous this month.
In a chain of snaps from the awards display posted by means of Instagram, Ronson incorporated a pic of his trash can that contained his acceptance speech apparently ripped up. Even supposing neither of his tracks took house the Golden Globe, the award went to Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas, for any other Barbie music: “What Was I Made For?”