Her scenery Barbie Land they required such huge quantities pink paint that absorbed all the world’s supply from one company, according to the production designer of the anticipated tania, Sarah Greenwood.

Speaking to Architectural Digest, director Greta Gerwig revealed that the team, at Warner Bros Studios Leavesden, built the film’s glittering sets from scratch; even the sky, which was hand-painted rather than a Computer Generated Image.

“We were creating – literally – the alternate universe of Barbie Land,” he said. “Everything had to be tangible, because toys are, above all, things that you hold,” he emphasized.

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To recreate the almost monochromatic palette of Barbie’s Dreamhouses, the set design team had to have a bottomless amount of pink paint on hand to cover everything from lampposts to road signs.

They used a particularly saturated shade of pink produced by the American manufacturer Rosco.

“I wanted the pinks to be very bright and everything to be over the top, almost,” Gerwig explained. Such a quantity of paint was required that according to Greenwood, the film’s production caused a global shortage of that particular shade of pink; “the world ran out of pink,” she joked.

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