Why ‘Barbie’ director Greta Gerwig refused to CGI this ‘beautiful’ body part

She’s plastic, but this was not fantastic. 

“Barbie” director Greta Gerwig has revealed her refusal to CGI a certain body part of the famous doll in the upcoming film, calling the very idea “terrifying.” 

“There was a big discussion in the beginning,” Gerwig, 39, told the hosts of 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.’ Also, Margot [Robbie] has the nicest feet. She has these beautiful dancer feet. She should just…do it,” Gerwig said.

“Barbie” is a fantasy-comedy based on the doll of the same name. The film, in theaters July 21, follows Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) as they travel from Barbie Land to the real world. 

The decision to let the actors be themselves appears to have come on the heels of 2019’s widely-panned “Cats” movie, which famously CGI’d a more sensitive area of the feline anatomy.

Audiences — among them rumored foot fetishist Quentin Tarantino — don’t need to wait until the 21st to appreciate Robbie’s real-life assets.

An opening shot of the trailer for “Barbie” shows, from the legs down, the 33-year-old actress removing high heels to reveal her feet in the arched position – just like the doll. 

Robbie reportedly held onto a bar off-camera, so that she wouldn’t lose her balance while extending her legs. 

The lack of CGI has been controversial, with Gen-Z fans complaining that Gosling, 42, looks “too old.” 

“i’m sorry his wrinkles are taking me out of the experience,” one fan tweeted. 

Another outraged fan complained, “I like Ryan Gosling but idk [I don’t know] why he looks a little too old and dry. Not sure if it’s because of the hair or tan but he needed some moisturizer.”

Gosling himself has responded to this criticism. 

“I would say, you know, if people don’t want to play with my Ken, there are many other Kens to play with,” he told GQ. 

Gosling said that he thinks the discourse is “funny,” given that people didn’t think about Ken before he was cast.

“But suddenly, it’s like, ‘No, we’ve cared about Ken this whole time. No, you didn’t. You never did. You never cared. Barbie never f–ked with Ken. That’s the point.” 

Gerwig said that she thought about every detail of the summer blockbuster.

“Even though it’s this huge movie, it feels very personal to me,” Gerwig said during her appearance on the talk show.

 “It was made by so many people who cared about it. Even the Barbie logo that we used is the logo that I had as a child of the ’80s. I would stand in the toy store…we had the wide boxes because their hair was really big. I wanted the [logo] that I liked.”