Barbie Music Producer Calls Bill Maher to Criticize Hit Movie – The Hollywood Reporter

Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken in “Barbie”.

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Barbie Music producer Mark Ronson isn’t here for Bill Maher’s $1 billion hit Greta Gerwig.

Ronson, who supervised Barbie soundtrack album and also co-produced and co-wrote several of the film’s signature songs, including “I’m Just Ken,” who took to social media Tuesday to share his thoughts on the talk show host calling the movie “preachy.” , man-hate and #ZombieLie”.

“We come to this place for magic,” Ronson began tweeting, imitating the infamous Nicole Kidman ad. “We come to AMC Theaters to laugh, cry, and care…and to gossip about ‘Making up the Mattel board’ on Google while others try to enjoy great comedy.”

Ronson, who won an Academy Award in 2019 for Best Original Song, was responding to Maher’s four-paragraph tweet posted on Wednesday. the at present host writes it Barbie It ended up being what he expected, even though he hoped it wouldn’t be.

“Well, Barbie: I was hoping it wasn’t preachy, man-hating, #ZombieLie – sadly, it was all three,” Maher wrote. “What is a zombie lie? Something that was never true, but some people refuse to stop saying (tax cuts for the rich increase revenue, for example); or something that used to be true but is no longer true, but some people claim it is still true.” Barbie is that kind of #ZombieLie.”

He went on to talk about parts of the movie — which is, to my head, a little spoiler — explaining that when Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) approach a Mattel painting in the real world, it’s made up of 12 white blocks. men.

The real Mattel board is a very close mirror of the country, with 45% of the 449 board seats filled last year. luck 500 companies were women.” “The truth is, I’m not one to step away — I live in the year we live. Barbie is fun, I had fun with her – but she’s a #ZombieLie. And people who don’t align with zombie lies didn’t take some red pills – they just stayed true to the current reality.”

Maher joins Ben Shapiro and Elon Musk, who shared negative attitudes with Gerwig Barbie.