“In soundstage musicals likeOklahoma!
orSingin' in the Rain, there’s a quality in the way people move.”
All the background actors, Gerwig shares, were actual dancers.
Margot Robbie in ‘Barbie’.Warner Bros. Pictures
She says, “Disco assumes you want to dance.
That’s not the assumption that every musical genre makes.”
“Dua Lipa makes kind of modern, tragic disco hits,” Gerwig observes.
Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ryan Gosling, Margot Robbie, Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, and Scott Evans in ‘Barbie’.Warner Bros. Pictures
“I just didn’t think the president would have to dance,” Rae says.
Perhaps more nerve-wracking, she’d have to perform it on her first day.
TheInsecurestar was game, learning the ins and outs of the sequence with the help of some friends.
But once she arrived on set, she learned the choreography had changed.
“I learned it that day and in front of everyone,” Rae recalls.
“So it was like the first day of school and I was naked.”
America Ferrera, for her part, would have gladly stepped onto the dance floor.
“I just waited for someone to, like, have to go to a wardrobe fitting.
I’m like, ‘I’ll do it!'”
TheSaturday Night Livealum quips in response, “I’m not.
Watch Gerwig and co. discuss movements and the dance sequences above.
And check out the fullAround the Tableinterview below, withMichael CeraandRyan Gosling.
Barbiedances into theaters July 21.
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