‘Barbie’: How Weird Barbie’s House Design Was Inspired by ‘Psycho’
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER ALERT: This contains spoilers from “Barbie,” now playing in theaters. “Barbie” Production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer reckon that by this time next year, there will be a pendulum swing and no one will want to go near the color pink.
But for now, it’s Barbie’s world and everyone, everywhere is obsessed. Greenwood says Greta Gerwig, Mattel and producers Margot Robbie and Tom Ackerley gave her and Spencer a free hand when it came to building the world. “That was great and scary because it was like, ‘Oh, right, now we’ve got to go and figure it out,” Greenwood says.
With Barbie’s Dreamhouse, they weren’t looking to recreate the Mattel Dreamhouse — rather, they wanted to refine what that looked like.
Says Greenwood, “We looked at the Dreamhouse over the past 60 years, what was in the script, and how to get the toyness of it.
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