America Ferrera will act alongside Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in the film that the Warner Bros. studio is preparing about the well-known doll “Barbie”.
The American actress of Honduran origin is well known in Hollywood for series like “Ugly Betty” and “Superstore”, as well as movies like “Real Women Have Curves”, with which she rose to fame.
The role of Ferrera, who this year she will also debut as a film director with “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter”.
Production will begin between March and April, in London, while the theatrical release is scheduled for 2023.
For its part, the “Barbie” project will be directed by Greta Gerwig, nominated three times for an Oscar for “Lady Bird” (2014) and “Little Women” (2019).
Gerwig has written the film’s script with her partner, fellow filmmaker Noah Baumbach, although the details of the script are unknown. plot.
About the protagonists, Robbie will be Barbie and Gosling will play Ken.
The idea of shooting a movie about Barbie has been in development in Hollywood for years and, first of all, was linked to the Sony studio, which in 2014 reached an agreement with Mattel, manufacturer of the doll, for filming.
Amy Schumer and Anne Hathaway were about to take on the leading role, which was to be that of a woman who lived in Barbieland and was expelled from that world for not be perfect enough.
The studio subsequently delayed the film’s release from August 2018 to May 2020 and finally passed into the hands of Warner Bros., which hopes to finalize the shooting this year.