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“There’s no way to feel sad when you know you’re so blessed,” Margot Robbie said during a panel at a special SAG screening Tuesday night.
Robbie, who produced and starred in Barbiewas responding to the lost Oscar nominations for director Greta Gerwig and herself in the lead actress category, a situation that has sparked much online discourse and disappointment for Barbie fans.
“Obviously I think Greta should be nominated as director, because what she did is something unique in her career, something unique in her life, what she accomplished, it really is,” Robbie said. “But it’s been an incredible year for all the movies.”
Barbie It is the only billion-dollar film directed exclusively by a woman, and it surpassed all other films at the box office last year, grossing $1.4 billion worldwide. As Robbie said, the reaction to the film has become something of a cultural phenomenon: “I just suspect it’s bigger than us. “It’s bigger than this movie, it’s bigger than our industry.”
Robbie also clearly noted that she is “beyond elated that we have eight Academy Award nominations, it’s so wild.” Those nominations include Best Picture and Supporting Actress for América Ferrera; Supporting actor for Ryan Gosling, costume design, production design and best adapted screenplay for Gerwig and Noah Baumbach. “Everyone they’ve gotten the nominations they’ve had is just incredible, and Best Picture,” Robbie said.
“We set out to do something that would change the culture, affect the culture, just make some kind of impact,” Robbie said. “And he has already done it, and something, much more than we ever dreamed. And that is truly the greatest reward that could come from all of this.”
Robbie made the SAG audience laugh when he described listening to the audience’s reactions in the movie theater bathrooms and then being in a pub in Scotland listening to a group of men on a bachelor’s trip discussing the film. “It was really fascinating,” he said. “There were people at the table who refused to see the Barbie movie. One guy said, ‘Dude, it’s a cultural moment, don’t you want to be part of the culture?’ And the other guy said, ‘I’ll never see it,’ and in the end he did want to see it. “It was quite a deal.”
Robbie recalled that he couldn’t resist approaching the group to say hello. “It took them a minute to figure it out and I was practically out the door. And then they said, ‘Ohhhh!’ It was very funny.”
“People’s reactions to the movie have been the biggest reward of this whole experience, whether it’s having a moment like that, or listening in the bathrooms, or seeing what people write online, or even just seeing how much pink I have . “I can see in this room right now.”
“I’ve never been a part of anything like this. Not that way. I’ve done comic book stuff and that gets a big reaction, but this felt very different. It still feels very different. And I can’t think of a time when a movie has had this effect on culture. And it’s amazing to be in the eye of the storm.”
This Best Picture nomination is Robbie’s first as a producer: she acquired the rights to Barbie from Mattel with her production company LuckyChap and shares the nomination with fellow producers David Heyman, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner.