Greta Gerwig pictured on the 81st Golden Globe Awards. (Image courtesy: AFP)

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Comedian-actor Jo Koy’s internet hosting stint at Golden Globes 2024 has garnered headlines, particularly together with his joke on Barbie. During his opening monologue, Jo Koy tipped his hat to the Barbenheimer phenomenon by jokingly evaluating Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and Gerwig’s Barbie, Variety reported. “Oppenheimer is based on the 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project – and Barbie is about a plastic doll…,” he joked because the viewers responded with a muted chortle. His remarks about Barbie didn’t go down nicely with many. He acquired an enormous backlash on social media as nicely. However, Barbie director Greta Gerwig appeared to have a distinct tackle it.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4, she stated, “Well, he’s (Koy) not wrong.” Greta added, “She’s the first doll that was mass-produced with breasts, so he was right on. And you know, I think that so much of the project of the movie was unlikely because it is about a plastic doll…The insight that Ruth Handler had when she was watching her daughter play with baby dolls, is she realized, ‘My daughter doesn’t want to pretend to be a mother. She wants to pretend to be a grown woman.'”

Greta Gerwig’s movie gained the first-ever Golden Globe for cinematic and field workplace achievement. The field workplace achievement award was simply considered one of two accolades to Barbie on the 2024 Golden Globes, as Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things prevailed in the most effective movement image comedy or musical class.

Greta Gerwig’s comedy nonetheless stays on monitor for a boatload of Oscar nominations, and it most not too long ago picked up 4 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, together with excellent ensemble forged in a movement image, as per Variety.

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