Read Hari Nef's Heartwarming Letter to Greta Gerwig About Being Cast in 'Barbie'

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and changed the filming schedule for Barbie after Hari Nef sent them an impassioned letter, according to a social media post from Nef on Tuesday.As new promotion for began on Tuesday, including a new trailer, Nef shared a first look at her character in the movie, writing, “okay so i'm a #barbie this is Wild.”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.In a reply to her original tweet, the actor explained that after she was first cast, she realized she might not be able to do the film because of scheduling conflicts.

She then wrote a letter to Gerwig and Robbie “essentially begging them to fudge the schedule a bit,” and shared an excerpt from the letter.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.Acknowledging that the people involved with the film, including Gerwig and Robbie, “played no small role in cultivating my love of sitting in the dark in front of big screens for an hour or two,” Nef said that that was only a part of her need to be in the film. “Identity politics and cinema aren't my favorite combination, but the name BARBIE looms large over every American woman,” she wrote. “Barbie's the standard; she's The Girl; she's certainly THE doll.”Nef added that her and her “other transgender girlfriends” started calling themselves “the dolls” a few years ago, while noting the terms’ roots in ballroom culture. “Maybe it's a bid to ratify our femininity, to smile and sneer at the standards we're held to as women,” she wrote.

While the term is somewhat of a joke, Nef said, the term also alludes to “the shape of a woman who is not quite a woman—recognizable as such, but still a fake.”“‘Doll’ is fraught, glamorous; she is, and she isn't,” Nef wrote. “We call ourselves ‘the dolls’ in the face of everything we.