America Ferrera Filmed 50 Times For Barbie Movie Monologist Scene

America Ferrera (Warner Bros. Pictures)

JAKARTA - America Ferrera reveals the facts behind the monologist scene in the Barbie film. He admitted that the scene was taken 30 to 50 times for the scene.

Ferrera plays Gloria, a woman who works in Mattel's office. In one scene, Gloria conveys monologues to people in Barbieland including Margot Robbie who talks about women and their demands to live in the environment.

"We recorded it in two days. It's a big scene with a lot of characters in it," America Ferrera quoted Vanity Fair as saying.

I had to do it many times and go through the whole scene for two days. It's like taking up to 500 times," he explained.

The 39-year-old actress was even assisted by other actors to read out the monologist because she had to cover other actors. Ariana Greenblatt plays Sasha, Gloria's 15-year-old daughter.

"I'm sure maybe 30 to 50 times. Finally, (Ariana Greenblatt) read out the monologue for me because she memorized it when I kept saying it repeatedly," Ferrera said.

Furthermore, Ferrera is happy because director Greta Gerwig gives freedom to be monologous.

There were times in filming a film where Greta wrote something in a very specific way that she heard very specific ways in her head with certain rhythms in speed or certain inflections," he said again.

"I thought it might be like that, but this is the opposite. He wanted me to fully control (monologists) and we did it," Ferrera explained.

Barbie film tells the story of Barbie (Margot Robbie) who travels to the real world to find out something behind her identity.

Five days since its release, the Barbie film was declared to have won a box office in the United States for 155 million US dollars and 337 million dollars globally.