Whilst Barbie and Oppenheimer had a dueling liberate date, there may be not anything however love between the actors.
“Margot Robbie‘s not getting enough credit, in my opinion, because America [Ferrera] has this amazing speech, and she nails it,” Oppenheimer star Robert Downey Jr. said during a Tuesday, January 30, conversation with the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. “But it’s the cutaway [shot] to Robbie so actively listening. It’s once I understand, ‘Oh, OK, now I see Greta’s in reality onto one thing right here, but it surely used to be Robbie who needed to accept as true with [her].’”
He endured, “And let’s not kid ourselves, it’s hard when someone else has the two-page passage and they go, ‘Alright, now let’s jump in and get Bob!’ And you’re just like, ‘I’ve been listening to this all day, now I have to listen to it and make it work?’”
Robbie, 33, starred because the titular “Stereotypical Barbie” within the 2023 movie, directed through Greta Gerwig, according to the long-lasting Mattel doll logo. Her portrayal earned her Golden Globe and SAG Award nods, however now not an performing nomination on the 2024 Oscars. (Robbie is credited as a manufacturer in Barbie’s Absolute best Image nod on the Academy Awards.)
“There’s no way to feel sad when you know you’re this blessed,” Robbie stated all over a Tuesday screening of the movie. “I just suspect it’s bigger than us. It’s bigger than this movie, it’s bigger than our industry. We set out to do something that would shift culture, affect culture, just make some sort of impact and it’s already done that, and some, way more than we ever dreamed it would. And that is truly the biggest reward that could come out of all of this.”
Gerwig additionally ignored out on an Oscar nomination for guiding however did obtain one for Absolute best Tailored Screenplay. She wrote Barbie along her husband, Noah Baumbach.
Barbie stars Ferrera, 39, and Ryan Gosling, in the meantime, had been each nominated for Oscars within the Absolute best Supporting Actress and Absolute best Supporting Actor classes. Whilst the twosome had been overjoyed to be known, they had been disheartened that Robbie and Gerwig had been snubbed.
“There is no Ken without Barbie, and there is no Barbie movie without Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie, the two people most responsible for this history-making, globally-celebrated film,” Gosling, 43, stated in a January commentary. “To say that I’m disappointed that they are not nominated in their respective categories would be an understatement.”
He concluded, “Against all odds with nothing but a couple of soulless, scantily clad, and thankfully crotchless dolls, they made us laugh, they broke our hearts, they pushed the culture and they made history. Their work should be recognized along with the other very deserving nominees.”
Gosling is up in opposition to Downey Jr., 58, Mark Ruffalo (Deficient Issues), Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon) and Sterling Okay. Brown (American Fiction) for the Oscar.