Recently, at the Golden Globes 2024, comedian-actor Jo Koy who hosted the award ceremony grabbed the headlines for his controversial remark on 'Barbie'. His remarks about Greta Gerwig's directorial invited backlash by a section of netizens on social media. But Greta seems to have a different opinion on it. Read on to know.
During his opening monologue at the Golden Globes, Jo Koy jokingly compared Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' and Gerwig's 'Barbie', as per a report in Variety. He said Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' is based on the 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Manhattan Project while Margot Robbie starrer is an adaptation of “a plastic doll with big boobs”.
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Reacting to his remarks, Greta told BBC Radio 4, "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.'"
For the unversed, Greta Gerwig's film won the first-ever Golden Globe for cinematic and box office achievement. Greta accepted the award alongside the film's producers and stars Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and America Ferrera.
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At her acceptance speech, Greta said, "Thank you to everybody, all the Barbies and Kens in front of and behind the screen. It was the greatest, most joyful show of craftsmanship and passion I've ever seen''.
'Barbie' was released along with Cillian Murphy starrer 'Oppenheimer'. Both did wonders at the box office.
