It looks like Barbie has every little thing — woman energy, large laughs, extra shades of pink than any of Us knew existed — however director Greta Gerwig needed to reduce a couple of issues from the large blockbuster.

All of the Fart Jokes

Gerwig admitted that she and movie editor Nick Houy wished to get a number of flatulence quips in Barbie, however they simply couldn’t to squeeze them in.

“We had like a fart opera within the center [of Barbie]. I assumed it was actually humorous,” Gerwig recalled on a July 2023 episode of IndieWire‘s “Filmmaker Toolkit” podcast. “And that was not the consensus.”

“It was within the incorrect place, too,” Houy added. “We have to work it right into a extra important narrative second subsequent time.”

Gerwig added that she wished to get fart jokes into Girl Chicken or Little Ladies, however they agreed to scrap the gassy quips “about two-thirds by means of the edit” every time.

Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet’s Cameos

Whereas Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling starred as the principle Barbie and Ken within the movie, which hit theaters on Friday, July 21, Gerwig meant to have Saoirse Ronan and Timothée Chalamet play small roles. She beforehand directed the duo in her solo directorial debut, Girl Chicken, in 2017 in addition to her 2019 remake of Little Ladies.

“Properly, it was all the time going to need to be a form of smaller factor as a result of [Ronan] was really producing on the time, which I’m so pleased with her for. And naturally, it’s good. Nevertheless it was going to be a specialty cameo,” Gerwig informed CinemaBlend in an interview revealed earlier this month.

Sadly, the scheduling didn’t work out for Ronan, after which related obstacles prevented Chalamet from showing. “I used to be additionally going to do a specialty cameo with Timmy, and each of them couldn’t do it and I used to be so aggravated. However I like them a lot,” Gerwig shared.

Barbie and Ken’s Kiss

Barbie isn’t a really romantic film. Although Robbie’s Barbie is relationship Gosling’s Ken, the doll would reasonably have each night time be ladies night time, and neither of them have any concept what Ken is meant to do if he sleeps over on the Dreamhouse.

Nevertheless, Gosling revealed that he and Robbie did make an try to determine what a smooch would appear like between the 2 characters.

“It was so humorous attempting to determine what their concept of kissing could be,” Gosling informed Individuals throughout the joint interview with Robbie earlier this month. “I’m so glad all of that obtained reduce out.”

Emma Mackey and Margot Robbie’s Lookalike Joke

“I’ve been getting informed for years that I appear like the woman from Intercourse Schooling, who’s Emma Mackey,” Robbie informed BuzzFeed in early July. “She performs one of many Barbies within the film just about as a result of Greta and I assumed it might be humorous. We had been gonna do that complete joke about us trying related.”

Mackey regarded way more like Robbie when she had blonde hair within the early episodes of the Netflix hit, which debuted in 2019. Nevertheless, after Mackey returned to her pure brunette locks and framed her face with bangs, the joke didn’t fairly land.

“As soon as we obtained all dressed up as our Barbies, we had been form of like, ‘We don’t really look that related,’” Robbie recalled with amusing. “Like, when she’s obtained her brown hair and I’ve obtained my blonde hair, we don’t look that related, so we didn’t put that joke within the film.”

Nonetheless, Robbie accepts compliments for Mackey’s work. “When folks come up and say, ‘I liked you in Intercourse Schooling,’ I simply say, ‘Thanks. Thanks a lot,’” Robbie stated.

Whereas the lookalike joke was in the end reduce from the Barbie film, Gerwig and Robbie, who served as an govt producer on the movie, made it fairly clear that they large Intercourse Schooling followers. Mackey’s Netflix costars Ncuti Gatwa and Connor Swindells seem in Barbie as a Ken and a Mattel intern, respectively.

Bizarre Barbie and Ken’s Scene

In a behind-the-scenes photograph launched by Warner Bros., Bizarre Barbie (Kate McKinnon) is seen lounging in a Dreamhouse pool with Ken fortunately lays his head in her lap. The photograph exhibits Bizarre Barbie with a hand on Ken’s naked chest whereas Gerwig covers her mouth, seemingly holding again laughter. Was Ken going to maneuver on with Bizarre Barbie? Was Ken going to lastly discover out what to do at a sleepover? We could by no means know — however we’d love to search out out what was happening on this deleted scene.

Whereas a number of moments needed to find yourself on the slicing room ground, Gerwig saved the scene that was essential to her — a short second the place Barbie sees an older girl in the true world and tells her she’s stunning.

“I like that scene a lot,” Gerwig informed Rolling Stone in an interview revealed on July 3. “And the older girl on the bench is the costume designer Ann Roth. She’s a legend. It’s a cul-de-sac of a second, in a manner — it doesn’t lead anyplace. And in early cuts, trying on the film, it was instructed, ‘Properly, you can reduce it. And truly, the story would transfer on simply the identical.’ And I stated, ‘If I reduce the scene, I don’t know what this film is about.’”

She added, “That’s how I noticed it. To me, that is the guts of the film. The best way Margot performs that second is so mild and so unforced. There’s the extra outrageous components within the film that individuals say, ‘Oh, my God, I can’t imagine Mattel allow you to do that,’ or, ‘I can’t imagine Warner Bros. allow you to do that.’ However to me, the half that I can’t imagine that’s nonetheless within the film is that this little cul-de-sac that doesn’t lead anyplace — apart from, it’s the guts of the film.”

Barbie is in theaters now.