«Barbie» star and producer predicted that giving Greta Gerwig full creative control would yield a billion-dollar hit — and she was right.
Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” has become the newest billion-dollar hit at the box office, just as its lead star Margot Robbie predicted in a pitch meeting with Warner Bros. and Mattel.
As the news broke about the big milestone on Sunday, Collider’s Perri Nemiroff shared a clip of an interview she conducted with Robbie during a press junket for “Barbie” in June (which you can watch below). Nemiroff asked Robbie, who is also a producer on “Barbie,” what she told the Warner and Mattel teams when trying to convince them to give Gerwig full creative control as they brought the most famous doll ever made to the screen.
“I think my pitch in the green-light meeting was the studios have prospered so much when they’re brave enough to pair a big idea with a visionary director.
