Barbie director Greta Gerwig shut down early discussions about giving Margot Robbie CGI feet to achieve the look of the titular doll’s perfectly arched heels.
The trailer for Barbie opens with Robbie’s character stepping out of a pair of high-heels, only to maintain the Mattel doll’s signature arched feet by standing on her tiptoes. The brief clip generated a lot of discussion among viewers, and Gerwig has admitted it was also a major talking point during the movie’s early development.
“There was a big discussion in the beginning,” Gerwig said during a recent appearance on Australian talk show The Project. “Everyone said, ‘Are you going to CGI all the feet?’ And I thought, ‘Oh god, no! That’s terrifying! That’s a nightmare.’ And [Margot] has the nicest feet. She has these beautiful dancer feet. She should just hang on to that bar and do it just like this.”
As revealed in a recent Time magazine cover story about making the Barbie movie, the seconds-long shot took “eight takes” to get right, but Robbie was determined to do it herself. The actress held onto a bar off-camera to keep herself steady while leaving her feet flexed because she doesn’t like when someone else portrays her “hands or feet in an insert shot”.
Barbie will, of course, come crashing down to Earth with a bang (and flat feet) as she is expelled from Barbieland for being a less-than-perfect doll and dropped into the real world to discover the joys and perils of living among humans, including the likes of America Ferrera, Ariana Greenblatt, Connor Swindells, Jamie Demetriou, and Will Ferrell who plays the CEO of Mattel.
The shoe shot is not the only Barbie topic that has trended online in recent weeks. The internet has been blowing up with Barbenheimer memes, mashups, and more as people gear up for this summer’s most unlikely double bill with the simultaneous release of Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer on July 21.
Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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