Life in plastic is definitely incredible however creating the proper Barbie dreamworld for the upcoming “Barbie” film got here at fairly the price to the worldwide provide chain — that’s, a world scarcity of pink paint.
Director Greta Gerwig and manufacturing designer Sarah Greenwood informed Architectural Digest that the Palm Springs set for the soon-to-be-released movie took much more pink paint than individuals notice.
Gerwig’s set designers handpainted the background of the San Jacinto mountains as an alternative of utilizing CGI or different expertise in an try and maintain the set as genuine and playful as attainable, which in fact meant extra uncooked supplies.
Whereas creating the set, worldwide provides of the enduring pink shade related to the Barbie model paint (from the corporate Rosco) hit a low, in some locations practically depleted.
“The world ran out of pink,” Greenwood informed the outlet.
Rosco reps informed CNN that the units had been being developed “throughout a time once we had been nonetheless experiencing the worldwide provide chain points, and the paint provide was hit notably arduous.”
“We delivered all the things we might, they acquired all of it. We will not wait to see the way it seems to be within the movie!” mentioned VP of Advertising and Digital for Rosco, Lauren Proud, per CNN.
Gerwig was insistent that she “wished the pinks to be very brilliant, and all the things to be nearly an excessive amount of” within the creation of the fantasyland, and from the seems to be of the movie’s official trailer, she appears to have succeeded.
Barbie is ready to hit theaters on July 21, 2023.