Margot Robbie unsure about ‘Barbie’ sequel: ‘We put everything into this one’

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there may only be one “Barbie.”Margot Robbie, 33, doesn’t think there will be a sequel to the massive summer hit “Barbie.” “I think we put everything into this one,” Robbie recently told the Associated Press when asked about a potential follow-up. “We didn’t build it to be a trilogy or something.”“It was like, Greta [Gerwig] put everything into this movie, so I can’t imagine what would be next,” she added.“Barbie,” which also stars A-listers such as Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Helen Mirren, and America Ferrera, follows the popular Mattel doll (Robbie) as she is forced to journey to the real world after she begins to “malfunction” by developing cellulite and experiencing death anxiety while living in the utopian Barbieland.“I’d say the biggest takeaway for me is that original films can still hit huge at the box office,” “The Wolf of Wall Street” star continued to the AP. “It doesn’t have to be a sequel or a prequel or a remake.

It can be totally original. It can still be big given the big budget to do that.”Robbie also stressed that having a female lead was not as important as some of the movie’s critics made it out to be. “Just because there’s a female lead doesn’t mean it’s not going to hit all four quadrants, which is, you know, I think a misconception that a lot of people still have,” Robbie explained. “So, it’s really important that ‘Barbie’ did well.”The Post reached out to Robbie reps for comment.The project has grossed more than $1.4 billion in global ticket sales and dethroned “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” as the biggest Warner Bros.

movie ever. “Potter” had held the record since it was released in 2011. “Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine something like this,” Gerwig, 40, said about the.