Margot Robbie Becomes the Highest Paid Actress Of The Year: ‘Barbie’ Salary For Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling Revealed
The Australian actor Margot Robbie is one of those actors, who rose to fame within a very short period of time in Hollywood. After the theatrical release of Barbie, the Suicide Squad actor has become the talk of the town. The Greta Gerwig-directed movie has already become a major commercial success, leaving behind Tom Cruise’s seventh installment of the Mission Impossible franchise and Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus project Oppenheimer.
Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling’s Barbie saw its theatrical release on July 21, 2023. With the help of the American company Mattle and billion-dollar production house WB, the Barbie magic can be seen everywhere. From shopping malls to the Google search engine- all have been painted pink.
How much did Margot Robbie Make From Greta Gerwig Directed Barbie?
As the world is witnessing Margot Robbie’s Barbie scaling numbers at the box office, the speculations around the salary of the respective actors have already become the talk of the town. It has been speculated that both Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling made millions from Barbie. According to the reputed media platform Variety, she was paid around $12.5 million for playing the character of Barbie. She is one of the highest-paid actress of the year in Hollywood.
Even Ryan Gosling went on to receive a similar sum of $12.5 million for playing Ken in Barbie. The plot of the fantasy-drama-based movie is nowhere similar to what we have read or seen in the past, instead, Margot Robbie’s Barbie goes through an existential crisis and is kicked out of Barbie land along with her best friend Ken played by Ryan Gosling
Margot Robbie On Not Being A Barbie Kind Of A Girl
Margot Robbie played the Barbie doll in Greta Gerwig’s much-esteemed project but she is not the actual Barbie girl. During an interview with the entertainment outlet People, the 33-year-old actor mentioned that Barbie wasn’t her go-to-doll. On being asked whether she loved playing with a Barbie while growing up in Queensland, the actor recalled-
“I didn’t personally have any that I can recall. My sister did and I remember my cousin did. I would play with my cousins, but I wasn’t actually that much of a Barbie girl as a kid. I was more of a roll-around-in-the-mud kind of gal. I think they were all so janky because they were not well cared for. They were all weird Barbies.”
While talking about her experience reading the script and what made her go for the role, she said-
“I’ll never forget, after talking to [writer-director] Greta Gerwig for years I sat down and read the script, There was a joke on page one and I was like ‘They’re never going to let us make this movie. But they did!”
Margot Robbie even pointed out that the entire conceptualization of the plot was the biggest draw for her, She said-
“The idea that I am enough. Barbie can be anything and everything, but even if you’re just making it through life, you’re crushing it. I found that very therapeutic.”
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is way ahead of Christopher Nolan’s much-hyped project Oppenheimer. Barbie created history by becoming the first female lead movie to get the biggest opening and is gradually moving towards the $1 billion mark.
Barbie is currently running in the theatres.
Source: Variety
