Greta Gerwig has been trying to sneak a fart joke into every one of her films to no avail
so idiosyncratic and so wild, it was almost like no one really knew where to start taking it apart,” Gerwig mused. “Like, where are you going to start hacking away at how strange it was? Maybe because there was this sense of sheer joy behind it, it was this hard thing to say, ‘Oh no, we don’t want that thing that’s sheer joy.’ People wanted it to exist, in all its weirdness.
”, during a trip to the London set, about one character’s rant against Barbies, but they eventually let it slide. “It wasn’t like I ever got the full seal of approval from [Mattel], like, ‘We love it!’ I got a tentative, ‘Well, OK. I see that you are going to do this, so go ahead and we’ll see how it goes.’ But that’s all you need, and I had faith once it was in there and they saw it that they would embrace it, not fight it,” Gerwig explained.
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