“That was like my favorite line”: Greta Gerwig Was Heartbroken After Studio Deleted Fast X Star Helen Mirren’s NSFW Scene from Barbie
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie had painted the entire world in pink much before its release. The Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie starrer movie saw its theatrical release on July 21 worldwide. The live-action Barbie is totally different from what we have read or watched over the years. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie revolves around Margot Robbie’s Barbie, who goes through an existential crisis.
She is abandoned by Barbieland and enters the real world of human beings where she is confronted with the weird realities of life. With excellent marketing and an out-of-the-box storyline, Barbie is already scaling high at the box office globally.
Greta Gerwig Was Disappointed Over A Deleted Scene In Barbie
During her appearance on the YouTube show of the media outlet Cinema Blend, Reel Blend Greta Gerwig spoke about her much-hyped movie. She even went on to talk about the narrator Barbie, played by the legendary actor Helen Mirren. In between, the conversation the actor-turned-director revealed one of her favorite dialogues that was removed from the movie. The Little Women director mentioned-
Suffice to say, there was a sort of extended joke with Marie Curie, which didn’t end up being part of (the final cut). But yes, there was a page-one F-bomb that sort of set the tone for the whole thing. What the line was, it was actually Helen Mirren saying to Marie Curie, ‘Pipe the fuck down, Marie Curie!’
She further added-
“That was like my favorite (line). … But we knew we only got one F-bomb, and we were like, ‘Let’s use it at the very beginning.’ And there’s just something, to me, (about) Helen Muren saying, ‘Pipe the fuck down, Marie Curie.’
However, the entire dialogue was recorded but could not be included in the movie. She said-
“The audio’s there, the, ‘Pipe the f-ck down,’ in a proper, British voice. But it was something in the editing that didn’t end up making the cut. That was, I would say, the line that everyone was like, ‘Oh, no, no, no, no,'”
Helen Mirren’s F-Bomb could not make it to Barbie as well as a few words were also censored by the characters spoken in the movie.
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Creates History
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie had a tough competition with Christopher Nolan’s biographical epic drama Oppenheimer as both the movies were released on the same date. Barbie seems to be on the winning stride as the movie went on to amass a collection of $377 million on the opening weekend across the globe. making it the biggest debut movie ever directed by a female director in Hollywood.
The fever of Barbenheimer- the fusion of both Barbie and Oppenheimer drew a record number of moviegoers to theatres around the world. The president and CEO of the National Association of Theatre Owners even commented on the commercial success of Barbie–
“It was a truly historic weekend and continues the positive box office momentum of 2023. People recognized that something special was happening and they wanted to be a part of it.”
The explosive and large-scale marketing of Barbie by Mattel and Warner Brothers has already taken the world by storm. This has worked with respect to the commercial aspect of Greta Gerwig’s movie. According to the statistics, the release of both Barbie and Oppenheimer has affected the ticket sales of Tom Cruise’s super spy action drama Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One.
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is currently running in theatres across the world.
Source: Cinema Blend
