Helen Mirren Says Her 'Barbie' Colleagues Shouldn't Sweat Oscar Snubs | EXF856C | 2024-02-19 13:08:01
Helen Mirren doesn't assume her Barbie colleagues must be too concerned over their Oscar nomination snubs.
The Barbie narrator has undoubtedly seen the outrage over Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie's omission from the Greatest Director and Greatest Actress categories, respectively — both from fans and the movie's costars. Still, Mirren, 78, says she would moderately concentrate on the film's overwhelming and historic success.
"You possibly can't get upset about things like that, truthfully," Mirren advised Entertainment Tonight on Thursday, February 15. "What's implausible is that Barbie was the highest-grossing film that Warner Bros. has ever had of their lives, and do you keep in mind who gained greatest film of the yr earlier than last?"
Mirren, who has an Oscar win and four nominations underneath her belt, clarified that she was disillusioned to see Gerwig and Robbie unnoticed, despite the popular culture phenomenon that Barbie turned.
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"I mean, in fact I might have beloved to have seen Greta [be nominated], and I feel she ought to win greatest [director]," she stated. "Christopher Nolan's work on Oppenheimer was spectacular, extraordinary. But [for] me, Greta's work was so on the market, it was so brave, it was one thing we'd by no means seen before. I just love the truth that the audience responded the best way they did."
The film grossed $1.46 billion on the field office as America Ferrera and Ryan Gosling earned Oscar nominations of their own. Both previously released statements concurrently thanking the Academy for the nominations and slamming the decision to omit Gerwig and Robbie.
"To say that I'm disenchanted that they don't seem to be nominated in their respective classes can be an understatement," Gosling said in a press release final month. "Towards all odds with nothing but a few soulless, scantily clad, and thankfully crotchless dolls, they made us snort, they broke our hearts, they pushed the tradition they usually made history. Their work ought to be acknowledged together with the opposite very deserving nominees."
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For her part, Robbie seems to have taken the snub in stride and expressed extra disappointment for Gerwig not getting the recognition she deserves.
"There's no strategy to really feel unhappy when you already know you're this blessed," Robbie stated at a January Display Actors Guild screening of Barbie. "Obviously I feel Greta ought to be nominated as a director, because what she did is a once-in-a-career, once-in-a-lifetime thing."
General, Barbie acquired eight nominations, together with one for Greatest Picture. The Oscars will air on ABC Sunday, March 10, at 7 p.m. ET.
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