What’s Really Going On With The Beef Between Simu Liu And Ryan Gosling’s Kens In The 'Barbie' Trailer? Apparently A Backflip Is Involved

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Interview with Simu Liu

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00:00Your Ken and Ryan Gosling's Ken, there's clearly some baggage between the two of you specifically.

00:10Did you and Ryan or you and Greta talk about what went down with them before we meet them?

00:16Like what is going on?

00:17Yeah, I think we did talk about it quite a bit.

00:20It was just, you know, the sense of like, and I think she had such a genius take on

00:25it, which is that Kens are like boys on a playground.

00:30And you know, when boys play with each other and they play these games and sometimes you

00:35don't even know what these games mean or what they are.

00:38You just know, you know, for example, girls have cooties or you play tag.

00:41It's like nobody understands why the rules are the way they are, but they're just kind

00:45of playing it because everyone else was playing it.

00:47And that's kind of, I think, where you find our Kens in the beginning of this movie is

00:51that they're just like weirdly antagonistic toward each other.

00:55But no one can quite figure out why.

00:57Like there's just like, oh, you know, my Ken can do this.

01:01I don't want to give away any spoilers.

01:03But between Ryan and I, one of us can backflip and one of us can't.

01:08This becomes a very major plot point in the movie, right?

01:11And like the fact that one of them, again, not going to say who, one of the Kens can

01:16backflip makes the other Ken, whoever he may be, really, really jealous because it's kind

01:22of really cool to know how to backflip, especially because it impresses Barbies.

01:26And so that just becomes kind of a point of contention among all the Kens is like, well,

01:33how can we all impress the Barbies?

01:36Because again, Kens have nothing to do.

01:38They have no jobs.

01:39And so they really only exist within the gaze of the Barbies in Barbieland.

01:45And so it's just kind of a really disempowered position to be in and kind of clues you into

01:52why there's so much infighting among the Kens.

01:55Yeah, especially if you can't do a backflip.

01:58Especially if you can't.

01:59Yeah.

02:00You can't imagine what that would be like.

02:03God.

02:04Oh, it looks like this beach was a little too much beach for you, Ken.

02:06If I wasn't severely injured, I would beach you off for right now, Ken.

02:10I'll beach off with you any day, Ken.

02:11Anyone who wants to beach him off has to beach me off first.

02:14I will beach both of you off at the same time.

02:16Beach both of us off.

02:17Nobody's going to beach anyone off.

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