With electric blue hair and the phrase “This Barbie is a mermaid”, a poster of the famous singer has just been released Dua Lipa on the film’s social media Barbie the moviewhich will be released on July 21 this year.

The production has thus unveiled the images of several names of the cast of the film, of which it was only known who the protagonists are Margot Robbie as plastic blonde Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken. The director is Greta Gerwig.

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In addition to Dua Lipa as Mermaid Barbie, there will also be many other incarnations of Barbie, not only professionally but also as a representation of racial and bodily diversity, such as President Barbie (Issa Rae), diplomat Barbie (Nicola Coughlan), writer Barbie (Alexandra Shipp), Journalist Barbie (Ritu Arya), Doctor Barbie (Hari Nef) and Physics Nobel Prize Barbie (Emma Mackey).

Moreover, the great Helen Mirren will play the role of narrator.

In the male roles there will be Simu Liu (Marvel’s Shang Chi, who will also play another Ken here), as well as Michael Cera and Will Ferrell.

Debut as an actress

This performance of Dua Lipa will be her acting debut, which will continue with the spy thriller argylewhich is an adaptation for Apple TV + of the novel of the same name written by Ellie Conway and in which Dua Lipa worked with Henry Cavill under the orders of Matthew Vaughn.

More details about “Barbie”

In the first trailer released on YouTube in December of last year, Barbie (Robbie) appears dressed in the black and white striped bathing suit she stepped out in 1959 surrounded by girls playing with dolls that they end up destroying to stay with Mattel toys .

The advance evokes the primacy scene of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick, which symbolizes the evolution of thought.

The voice of a narrator begins by explaining that “since the beginning of time, since the first girl existed, there were dolls, but dolls had always been dolls, until…”, at which point appears a giant Barbie.

In the 75-second trailer, you can also see an all-pink toy town, dance scenes, and a very brief glimpse of Ken (Gosling), Barbie’s boyfriend.

Dressed in black, Gosling steps out with platinum-blonde hair and tanned skin, doing a sort of headlock as if he’s playing sports.

According to specialist media Variety, the film will show Barbie and Ken trapped in the real world and follow the struggles of becoming a real woman.

The film’s original screenplay was written by Gerwig and her romantic partner Noah Baumbach, who had previously worked together on films such as Francesca Ha.