Margot Robbie stars within the live-action Barbie film, whose manufacturing reportedly required jaw-dropping quantities of pink paint.

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Margot Robbie stars within the live-action Barbie film, whose manufacturing reportedly required jaw-dropping quantities of pink paint.

Warner Bros. Entertainment

As any Barbie fan is aware of, life in plastic is unbelievable — and in addition very pink.

So a lot so, the truth is, that the makers of the extremely anticipated live-action film say they worn out an organization’s total international provide of 1 shade of it.

“The world ran out of pink,” manufacturing designer Sarah Greenwood informed Architectural Digest early final week.

She stated development of the expansive, rosy-hued Barbieland — at Warner Bros. Studios in Leavesden, England — had prompted a global run on the fluorescent shade of Rosco paint.

Rosco is understood for supplying the entertainment industry with merchandise like scenic paints, colour filters and different tools, together with sure tints specifically formulated for the display screen.

And it is now portray a fuller image of Greenwood’s feedback.

Lauren Proud, Rosco’s vice chairman of world advertising, informed the Los Angeles Times on Friday that “they used as much paint as we had” — however that it was in brief provide to start with through the film’s manufacturing in 2022.

The firm was nonetheless coping with pandemic-related provide chain points and recovering from the 2021 Texas freeze that broken essential uncooked supplies, she stated.

The freeze affected tens of millions of gallons of stockpile, in addition to the tools wanted to replenish it, Henry Cowen, nationwide gross sales supervisor for Rosco’s Live Entertainment division, said in a 2022 interview with the Guild of Scenic Artists.

Even so, Proud, the corporate vice chairman, stated Rosco did its greatest to ship.

“There was this shortage, and then we gave them everything we could — I don’t know they can claim credit,” Proud stated, earlier than acknowledging: “They did clean us out on paint.”

And there is no query about the place all of it went.

The essential movie trailer reveals a larger-than-life model of Barbie’s iconic three-story Dreamhouse (full with a walk-in closet and kidney-shaped pool with a swirly slide), her Corvette convertible and a utopian seashore city of cul-de-sacs and storefronts — all vivid pink.

Director Greta Gerwig aimed for “authentic artificiality” on all facets of the set, telling Architectural Digest that “maintaining the ‘kid-ness’ was paramount.”

“I wanted the pinks to be very bright, and everything to be almost too much,” she stated.

Viewers will quickly be capable to see for themselves, when the film — which is marketed to Barbie lovers and haters alike — hits theaters on July 21.