Whereas I’m on no account /Movie’s resident “Barbie” professional, I do know sufficient to say that Ken has had varied hairdos in his animated movie appearances through the years. Specifically, his wavy fringes in “Toy Story 3” recall to mind a younger Robert Redford circa “The Sting” and even “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Child.” It could appear that Gosling, “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig, and her artistic workforce initially had one thing related in thoughts for the character’s live-action debut, too.
“I had this virtually Redford wig, they known as it,” Gosling instructed Selection in an in depth post-Oscar nominations profile. It wasn’t working for him, although. “I regarded on the display screen take a look at, and I believed it wasn’t Ken. I regarded like I labored at Shutters or one thing,” the actor continued. As an alternative, he discovered what he was on the lookout for in one other performing legend: Jennifer Jason Leigh. I will let Gosling take it from right here:
“I believed, ‘Ken is “Single White Feminine”-ing Barbie.’ So he would attempt to dye his hair, although he cannot dye his hair. I believed, ‘I ought to bleach my hair, nevertheless it needs to be an off model of hers.'”
That is a reasonably darn excellent psychological breakdown of Ken in “Barbie,” which simply additional goes to point out how a lot Gosling was born to play this position. His bleached ‘do additionally helped Gosling get again into the mindset of his early days as a toddler star, which he is beforehand admitted was a necessary a part of his performing course of on the movie. “What was bizarre was I ended up wanting like I did at eight or 12, which was the period I used to be revisiting anyway,” he noticed.
Maybe it truly was his future to dwell and die a lifetime of blonde fragility in any case.