These "Barbie" Posters Confirm Who Each Actor Is Playing, Including Who's A Barbie, A Ken, A Human, And More,The first character posters for Greta Gerwig's <i>Barbie</i> are here, and we finally know who Emma Mackey, Ncuti Gatwa, Dua Lipa, Nicola Coughlan, and more are starring as.
These “Barbie” Posters Confirm Who Each Actor Is Playing, Including Who’s A Barbie, A Ken, A Human, And More
So, I think it’s safe to say that Barbie is the most anticipated movie of the summer of 2023.
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But today, we finally got more details on who some of the actors are playing through these incredible posters that were just released.
First, we’ve, of course, got Margot and Ryan playing THE Barbie and Ken:
Here’s Emma Mackey, whose Barbie has “a Nobel Prize in physics”:
Then, Ncuti Gatwa as a Ken, who apparently loves to play music:
And to round out the Sex Education reunion, we’ve got Connor Swindells, who plays “an intern or something”:
Here’s Nicola Coughlan, who plays a Barbie who is a diplomat:
Simu Liu is another Ken:
While Michael Cera is Allan, and there’s apparently only one of him:
Kingsley Ben-Adir is…yup…a Ken:
Dua Lipa stars as a mermaid Barbie:
Will Ferrell plays the “insensitive” Mattel CEO:
And as we suspected with the first teaser trailer, Helen Mirren is the narrator:
Here’s Issa Rae as President Barbie:
Hari Nef, a model who is best known for her breakthrough role in Transparent, stars as a doctor Barbie:
On Instagram, Hari shared how she almost couldn’t do the movie because of a scheduling conflict. She wrote a letter to Greta and Margot asking if they could shift the schedule a little so she could join, explaining the importance of Barbie to her and her transgender friends.