In anticipation of today’s trailer, a batch of new character posters for the upcomingBarbiemovie reveal our first look at several of the supporting cast, including Will Ferrell, Kate McKinnon, Emma Mackey, and Dua Lipa as Mermaid Barbie. The posters - and there are a lot of them - have been released courtesy ofWarner Bros. Pictures, and also offer another lookat Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as beloved dolls Barbie and Ken. Check out the new posters forBarbiebelow.
Directed by Academy Award nominee Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird, Little Women), who has co-written the screenplay with fellow Academy Award nominee Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story, Fantastic Mr. Fox), the Barbie movie stars Academy Award nominee Margot Robbie as Barbie, with yet another Academy Award nominee, Ryan Gosling (Drive, La La Land) all set to star as Ken. As the posters reveal, theBarbiemovie will also feature several different versions of Barbie and Ken, with the likes ofSex Educationstar Emma Mackey playing a Barbie with a Nobel Prize, singer and songwriter Dua Lipa playing Mermaid Barbie,Dumbostar Sharon Rooney as Lawyer Barbie, andGrace and Frankie’sScott Evans as another Ken.
Barbiewill also feature the likes of America Ferrera (Superstore, Ugly Betty), Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live, Ghosbusters), Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), Ncuti Gatwa (Sex Education, Doctor Who), Issa Rae (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse), Hari Nef (Assassination Nation), Ariana Greenblatt (Love and Monsters), Alexandra Shipp (X-Men: Apocalypse), and Kingsley Ben-Adir (One Night in Miami…).
But that’s not all,Barbie’sensemble cast continues with the likes of Michael Cera (Superbad), Rhea Perlman (Cheers, Matilda), Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman), Ana Cruz Kayne (Another Earth), Connor Swindells (Sex Education, SAS Rogue Heroes), Ritu Arya (The Umbrella Academy), Jamie Demetriou (Fleabag), Marisa Abela (Industry),and Will Ferrell (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) also set to star.
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Barbie is Due for Release Later This Year
Marvel star Simu Liuhas heaped praise on the diverse cast that will make upBarbie. “I remember very clearly about some of our big intricate dance sequences. Greta was very, very conscientious about who she cast,” he said. “We were able to cast people of different shapes, sizes, differently abled, to all participate in this dance—all under this message of: You don’t have to be blonde, white, or X, Y, Z in order to embody what it means to be a Barbie or a Ken…It’s really about finding your inner beauty and owning that part of yourself and being the best possible version of you.”
Margot Robbie meanwhile used her time playing the infamous Tonya Harding in 2017’sI, Tonya, a performance for which Robbie received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress,to guide her through playing a character as iconic as Barbie. “That’s why I, Tonya intrigued us so much—because people had such an immediate and strong reaction to the name ‘Tonya Harding.’ It’s kind of amazing to begin at a place like that,” she said.
Barbieis scheduled to be released in the United States on August 08, 2025, by Warner Bros. Pictures.
