Sharon Stone Pitched a ‘Barbie’ Movie in the 1990s and Got ‘Laughed Out of the Studio,’ Thanks Margot Robbie and Co. for Their ‘Courage and Endurance’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Sharon Stone has revealed that she once attempted to pitch a “Barbie” movie to a Hollywood studio during the 1990s and was laughed out of the room.
What a difference a couple of decades makes, as Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie’s “Barbie” opened last year and earned a staggering $1.4 billion to become the top-grossing film of 2023 and the biggest earner in Warner Bros.’ studio history. “I was laughed out [of] the studio when I came [with] the Barbie idea in the ’90s [with] the support of the head of Barbie,” Stone wrote in a comment to America Ferrara on Instagram, where the latter shared her powerful acceptance speech from the Critics Choice Awards. “How far we’ve come.
Thank you ladies for your courage and endurance.” Ferrera is a supporting actor in “Barbie” and was honored with the SeeHer award at the Critics Choice Awards.
During her speech, she paid tribute to Gerwig and thanked her “for proving through your incredible mastery as a filmmaker that women’s stories have no difficulty achieving cinematic greatness and box-office history at the same time, and that unabashedly telling female stories does not diminish your powers, it expands them.” Stone is far from the only actor to try and fail to get a “Barbie” movie off the ground.
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