Greta Gerwig's Barbie has talented america with immoderate genuinely memorable Barbies — and Kens.
Take Ryan Gosling's Ken, for example. He's a horse-loving, guitar-strumming, ballad-belting sidekick who lone has eyes for Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie). But what if different Barbie caught his eye? Seems impossible, right? However, 1 behind-the-scenes photograph has spun my Barbie satellite connected its Barbie caput and sent maine down a wormhole of conspiracy theories. So enactment connected your limited variation Barbie tinfoil hats, and articulation me, won't you?
It each began with a delightful behind-the-scenes photograph of Gerwig directing a country astatine Barbie's DreamHouse (sorry, Ken's Mojo Dojo Casa House). The photograph is classical Gerwig goodness, calling to caput the video wherever she enthusiastically directs Saoirse Ronan and Lucas Hedges successful Lady Bird.
But wait, what's going connected successful the country itself? Computer, enhance!
Why is Ken lying successful Weird Barbie's (Kate McKinnon) thigh arsenic they lounge peacefully successful Barbie's pool? Was this a portion of a chopped subplot involving a romance betwixt Barbieland's astir eligible bachelor and its edgiest Barbie? Did Weird Barbie get to spot the "nude blob" of Ken's that she fantasized about?
As overmuch arsenic I emotion the unexpected quality of this pairing, I person a perchance much realistic theory. Given that Ken is wearing his lightning pants here, it's wide he's successful his "bad Ken" era, wherever he's brought patriarchy to Barbieland and proclaimed it a Kendom instead. Crucially, portion of the Barbies' last program to overthrow the Kendom involves distracting assorted Kens truthful they tin deprogram different Barbies. These distractions see asking astir everything from concern to The Godfather, each of which are definite to get Kens talking for a long, long time.
In the film, Hari Nef's Barbie distracts Gosling Ken with a instrumentality close retired of the She's All That handbook. She dons a brace of glasses and wonders if she'll ever look beauteous (all portion looking gorgeous anyway). Ken swoops successful to the rescue, stopping his all-important mechanic enactment connected a car to region the glasses and amusement Barbie her existent beauty. But what if Weird Barbie besides distracted Ken successful a antithetic scene? Perhaps she pretended she couldn't aquatics truthful Ken could supply her with a excavation float, oregon possibly she asked him to speech astatine magnitude astir Zack Snyder's Justice League while chilling retired successful the pool. Either way, I'm guessing this country has much to bash with Weird Barbie distracting Ken than it does with the 2 engaging successful romance.
But hey, present that Ken is self-actualized and nary longer yearning aft his Barbie, possibly these 2 could springiness a narration a go? Stranger things person happened successful Barbieland.