Director Greta Gerwig reacted to Jo Koy’s Golden Globes “Barbie” jab by agreeing with him. “He’s not wrong,” she said while on BBC Radio.
“Barbie” director Greta Gerwig isn’t letting Jo Koy’s Golden Globes jokes about the record-breaking film get to her.
During an interview with BBC Radio on Wednesday, she gave her stamp of approval to the comedian’s polarizing comparison of “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer.”
“‘Oppenheimer’ is based on the 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project — and ‘Barbie’ is about a plastic doll with big boobies,” he said during his opening monologue, rubbing some fans the wrong way.
“Well, he’s not wrong,” Gerwig, 40, bluntly stated.
“She’s the first doll that was mass-produced with breasts, so he was right on.”
She continued, “And you know, I think that so much of the project of the movie was unlikely because it is about a plastic doll.
“The insight that [Barbie’s creator] Ruth Handler had when she was watching her daughter play with baby dolls, is she realized, ‘My daughter doesn’t want to pretend to be a mother.
