'Barbie' director Greta Gerwig wants the movie's viewers to 'feel like I did at Shabbat dinner'
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July 28, 2023
Margot Robbie stars as Barbie.
(JTA) - Barbie the doll has a deep Jewish history. Now, the creator of "Barbie" the movie hopes watching the film will also evoke a deep Jewish experience.
Greta Gerwig, who conceived and directed the buzzy live-action film released this month, told The New York Times that she hopes watching the movie will be a quasi-spiritual activity for its viewers. The feeling she wants to achieve, she said, is the same one she felt as a child when she was a guest at the Shabbat dinners of close family friends who were observant Jews.
At those dinners, she recalled, the father would include Gerwig as he...
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