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Margot Robbie has been on the rising tide of fame recently as her upcoming movie titledBarbieis nearing its release date. With the movie nearing the horizon, there was so much pink used in the film that it caused an international shortage of the color!
In an interview, the production designer of the movie revealed that pink was used excessively on the sets of the movie. As per the director Greta Gerwig’s wishes, everything was covered in shiny, glossy, or matte pink inBarbie.
Margot Robbie’sBarbieCaused A Pink Shortage Worldwide
The director ofBarbie, Greta Gerwig hired production designer Sarah Greenwood and set decorator Katie Spencer to design the Barbie Dreamhouse. In an article, Greenwood talked about maintaining the tone of the colors and how the pink represented the nostalgia of owning a Barbie doll.
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She further revealed that during the production of the film, so much of the color pink was used that it caused an international shortage of the fluorescent shade of Rosco paints. In an interview with Architectural Digest, here’s what Sarah Greenwood had to say about the color pink.
“The world ran out of pink,”
This sentence resulted in people taking to Twitter to make jokes and compliment the team for their love and dedication toBarbie.
The pink makers:pic.twitter.com/WIOOR6s4EC
— SYTH! ∞ (@PossiblySyth)June 23, 2025
This is an odd flex
— 𝐒yphon𝕱ilthy (@SyphonFilthy)June 17, 2025
They couldn’t do this to her againpic.twitter.com/rPVZCxuuLi
— 🦋 Roxxi 🦋 (@spicyroxxi)June 05, 2025
WORTH ITpic.twitter.com/v72V1n8LyJ
— char❤️💙 (@livsmayfield)August 16, 2025
Good.pic.twitter.com/zQfNyeO5tm
— Zeus (@ZeusLFG)June 24, 2025
This wasn’t all as director Greta Gerwig came to the rescue and talked about how the movie was inspired by her childhood with dolls. TheMargot Robbiestarrer movie also pays significant importance to the amount of color used in the movie and director Greta Gerwig is all up for it.
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Greta Gerwig Wanted Everything To Be Pink
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During the interview, directorGreta Gerwigtalked about the importance of the color pink and how she wanted everything to be just perfect. Stating that she didn’t want to forget what made her fall in love with Barbie in the first place, Gerwig said that everything should be pink.
“I wanted the pinks to be very bright, and everything to be almost too much. [She didn’t want to forget] what made me love Barbie when I was a little girl.”
With Margot Robbie in the lead role alongside Ryan Gosling,Barbieis all set to collide with Christopher Nolan’sOppenheimer.With both movies sharing the same release date,BarbieandOppenheimerwill be released on 21st July 2023 in theaters across the U.S.
Source:Business Insider
Visarg Acharya
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
