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I want Barbie movie to feel like 'Shabbat dinner' says director Greta Gerwig

The director has said she was inspired by her Jewish childhood friends

July 12, 2023 14:55
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Director Greta Gerwig said she wants people watching Barbie in cinemas “to feel like I did at Shabbat dinner”.

In an interview with the New York Times, Gerwig explained how the rituals of Shabbat inspired her to create the hotly anticipated Barbie movie.

She told the New York Times that she felt “so safe and… so, like, enough” at dinners on Friday night. 

Gerwig isn’t Jewish, but growing up, her close family friends were observant Jews and in the interview, she recalled how she spent Shabbat dinners with them each Friday.