Thelife- Ivana Primorac, the hair and makeup artist for "Barbie," recently spoke with E! News about the film.
- She said her team originally considered making the actors appear to have been made of plastic.
Margot Robbie might play Barbie, but she doesn't look exactly like a plastic doll.
According to the film's hair and makeup artist, Ivana Primorac, that's intentional.
Primorac spoke with E! News about the creative choices behind the film's beauty looks. She said her team originally toyed with the idea of Robbie, Ryan Gosling, and other cast members wearing makeup that made them look artificial.
"We thought, 'Should they have plastic seams? Should they have plastic skin, plastic hair?'" she told the publication. "We didn't like all of those things in the end because Barbies are beautiful in every child's mind. So once we created that fake image, it wasn't beautiful."
Instead, Primorac made the cast look like picture-perfect versions of their human selves.
"There's a high finish to everything," she said. "So the hair is bigger and the skin is more luminous."
Robbie, in particular, had countless makeup options, all of which helped her get into character.
"Margot would choose her lipstick and blush according to what costume she wore. We had a little shop set up for her with 50 shades of red and pink, and she could choose whichever one was best for that outfit," Primorac said, comparing the system to "a Barbie that comes in a box with all of her accessories."
But no matter what hairstyle the actors had or the makeup they were wearing, Primorac said she ultimately focused on ensuring that "every single Ken and Barbie" was "the best version of themselves" to make them more believable and relatable.
"Everyone had to have the best skin that suits them, everyone had to have the hair color that suits them," the makeup artist told E! News.