Greta Gerwig's new film, Lady Bird, is about the cultural touchstones that are formative to girls. The director has been very preoccupied with themes of girlhood and womanhood in her work. In Barbie, she's reconsidering characters you hadn't thought about as deeply before. "I just feel like women, they have minds and they have souls as well as just hearts"
Is Barbie a toy commercial doubling as the first installment of an inevitable Mattel Cinematic Universe? Or does it have something important to say? Barbie’s multitudes, explained.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Noel King.
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