The new Barbie movie production, staring Margot Robbie, required such vast amounts of pink paint they swallowed up one company’s entire global supply, according to production designer Sarah Greenwood. Speaking to Architectural Digest, Gerwig revealed that the team constructed the movie’s fluorescent Barbie Land sets almost entirely from scratch at the Warner Bros Studios Leavesden – all the way down to the sky, which was hand-painted rather than CGI rendered.
To recreate the almost monochromatic colour palette of Barbie’s Dreamhouses, the set design team had to source a bottomless supply of pink paint to cover everything from lampposts to road signs. the production used a highly saturated shade by US manufacturer Rosco to capture the hyperreality of Barbie Land.
In the Architectural Digest interview, Gerwig said the bright pink shade was important in “maintaining the ‘kid-ness’” of the film’s aesthetic and injecting colourful excitement in to ‘Barbieland’s’ design.
"I wanted the pinks to be very bright, and everything to be almost too much,” Gerwig said, adding that she didn’t want to “forget what made me love Barbie when I was a little girl.”
The Barbie movie is set to be in Bahrain cinemas from 31st August– are you as obsessed with pink as Barbie? Let us know what room you would consider giving a Barbie makeover, in the comments below.