Dazed Magazineさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Dazed MagazineInstagram)「Barbie 👏 is 👏 a 👏 lesbian 👏⁠ ⁠ On Thursday, the new trailer for Greta Gerwig’s hotly-anticipated #Barbie movie was released and it’s an absolute pepto bismol-hued romp, filled with camp cowboy outfits, top-tier acting from Ryan Gosling and some quite unsubtle hints that Barbie is gay.⁠ ⁠ Lets the scene. The opening strums of the Indigo Girls’ “Closer to Fine” kick in as Margot Robbie’s Barbie arrives at the doorstep of Kate McKinnon’s Barbie. ⁠ ⁠ Kate McKinnon’s Barbie then presents Margot Robbie’s Barbie with a Matrix-esque red pill/blue pill scenario: she can pick the classy, rhinestone baby-pink heels and “go back to her regular life” or she can pick the mocha-brown Arizona Birkenstocks and “know the truth about the universe”.⁠ ⁠ Margot Robbie’s Barbie first tries to choose the heels, but Kate McKinnon’s Barbie says she “has to want to know” and then we cut straight into a scene of Margot Robbie’s Barbie driving in her car singing her heart out to “Closer to Fine” before Ken pops out of the backseat and sings along too.⁠ ⁠ So why is this so gay? Let’s unpack the seriously lesbian-coded creative choices. ⁠ ⁠ Firstly, Kate McKinnon is openly gay. In 2020, while presenting Ellen DeGeneres with an award at the Golden Globes she thanked her for making it less scary to accept her sexuality and helping her feel like she wasn’t an alien. Before being on SNL, she starred in The Big Gay Sketch Show and she has a very public long-time crush on Gillian Anderson.⁠ ⁠ Of course, an actor’s sexuality doesn’t dictate what kind of characters they can play and just because McKinnon is gay doesn’t mean her Barbie is. However, having it be her character – who, by the way, is not a polished high-femme Barbie like the other Barbies, but a broken one with marker all over her face and a safety-scissor haircut, which led queer women’s publication @Autostraddle to call her character “GAY GAY” – presenting the Birkenstock does add a subtextual layer of queerness to the interaction.⁠ ⁠ Read more of our theories through the link in our bio 💖⁠ ⁠ 📷 Barbie (2023)⁠ ✍️ @akbpeters⁠」5月27日 19時56分