The BarbieMovie's casting directors reveal what it took to build the perfect cast of Barbies and Kens, which actors they had to turn away, and the qualities they sought out most in their search.
“I loved working with Allison. Allison is the best casting person in comedy there’s ever been,” says Bevan, who is an organizational powerhouse. On that front, Jones says, “I’m terrible and Lucy’s fantastic.”
Aspiring Barbies and Kens treated auditions as a run-do-not-walk situation, because, per Jones, actorswant to work with Gerwig. “Simu Liu was dying to be a Ken, God bless him,” she says. Actors sent in self-tapes and did readings over Zoom. In certain cases, Gerwig wanted to talk to them before sharing the script, early versions of which included illustrations of archival Barbies and Kens. “She really wanted to get to know them as people. That was very important to her.
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