If you’re anything like us, next month’s Barbie film release is the best thing to happen all summer (well, apart from holidays etc) and we are lapping up every preview still and clip we can get our hands on. So, imagine our pure delight at a video that’s just been released showing Margot Robbie giving us the most detailed look at Barbie’s Dreamhouse we’ve seen yet.
The video tour, which appears on Architectural Digest’s YouTube channel is a proper peek inside the real-life set of Barbie’s Dreamhouse, with details on how it was constructed and designed, including the varying shades of pink paint that was used (it’s been reported that the movie led to a worldwide shortage of pink paint during filming) and where some of the ideas came from.
The video opens like an episode of MTV Cribs, with Margot Robbie opening the cerise-shaded pink doors of her character’s home: “Welcome to Barbie’s Dreamhouse, come on in…”
Margot proceeds to do a full tour. “This is my breakfast table and kitchen…here’s the fun little bar and the slide that goes from the bedroom down into the pool.” She adds: “Not super practical, but nothing is for Barbie.”
Viewers are given a glimpse into the props. “It’s just so fun and gorgeous and it’s see-through so we can see each other. All the Barbies in their own Barbie Dreamhouses,” says Robbie.
In the video director Greta Gerwig gives us a glimpse of the amount of pink shades that was used on the set, saying to the camera: “I can’t even tell you the meetings we had about pink.” Gerwig reveals, “I wanted to capture what was so ridiculously fun about the Dreamhouses. We sat with all these different kinds of pinks and we were like, ‘What is the pink? How do the pinks interact?’ When I was a girl, I wanted the brightest things.”