Margot told studio executives how much her սpcoming Barbie movie could make during presentations: Maybe I oversold
Margot Robbie took her duties as the producer of the Barbie movie very seriously, even going as far as telling studios that the flick could make a billion dollars.
In order to make the movie happen, the actress, 33, had to pitch the film during meetings with studio executives and assure them of its potential commercial success.
The Australian star, who leads the cast of the film as the eponymous Barbie doll alongside her boyfriend Ken,
played by Ryan Gosling, 42, insisted that in order for the movie to succeed they needed director Greta Gerwig, 39, on board.
‘I think my pitch in the green-light meeting was the studios have prospered so much when they’re brave enough to pair a big idea with a visionary director,’ she said in an interview with Collider.
‘I think I told them that it’d make a billion dollars, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, okay?’ she added.
Robbie also compared Barbie to Steven Spielberg’s iconic 1993 dinosaur flick Jurassic Park, which brought in $1.046 billion in the worldwide box office.
‘And then I gave a series of examples like, «dinosaurs and [Steven] Spielberg’ – pretty much naming anything that’s been incredible and made a ton of money for the studios over the years.
And I was like, ‘»And now you’ve got Barbie and Greta Gerwig.»‘
Though it remains to be seen whether Barbie will join the billion dollar club alongside classics like Jurassic Park, Avatar,
Star Wars, and Harry Potter, the film is certainly gearing up to be a win for Warner Bros. and is anticipated to surpass $100 million at the weekend box office.
Elsewhere in the interview, her co-star Ryan Gosling praised director Greta for being ‘brilliant’ but not ‘pretentious.’
‘Greta, she’s just such a brilliant person and such an inclusive person. She’s brilliant but incapable of being pretentious.’
