Photos from the »Barbie« film adaptation with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling: Come on, Barbie, let's go... Inline skating

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Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling on the set of "Barbie" in Los Angeles, California

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New photos from the set of a feature film about Barbie doll show Ryan Gosling as Ken and Margot Robbie as Barbie in neon colors and rollerblades - just freed from sealed packaging on a 1990's toy shelf and headed straight for Venice Beach, Los Angeles. sent to properly bask the plastic.

Especially Gosling, sex symbol and star of romcom (»Crazy, Stupid, Love.«) and arthouse action cinema (»Drive«), determines the online debates about the film as Barbie's friend.

A photo published a few weeks ago that showed Gosling with ultra-blonde hair and the picture-book version of a six-pack made users on social networks wonder why a 41-year-old Ken mime actually.

For some, the photo triggered »cringe«.

For the others, Gosling as Ken represented a "masterpiece of casting". And for some fans it may be a kind of Hollywood comeback of the year: after all, Gosling last appeared in front of the camera in the film "First Man", released in 2018.

He traveled to the moon as Neil Armstrong.

Not to the beach.

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The new photos of the "Barbie" film, which according to the "Hollywood Reporter" was in the making for eight years and is scheduled for release in 2023, naturally cause memes on Twitter - and more questions than clarity: In which corner Are the rollerblades still gathering dust in the attic, in which, for example, as a teenager you fell painfully on a date (it was a physical and mental pain at the same time)?

Or is the nineties revival now at the limit anyway?

Will Robbie just be accepted as Barbie while the discussion revolves around Gosling as Ken?

And if so, why?

What do you expect from a »Barbie« movie directed by indie icon Greta Gerwig (»Lady Bird«) – who wrote the screenplay together with her partner, director Noah Baumbach (»Marriage Story«)?

Art dollhouse?

One thing has been clear since Gosling's six-pack picture.

Even in the sofa-heavy times of the pandemic, he apparently did not let his training slip.

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