Margot Robbie Says Ryan Gosling and Male Barbie Costars Loved Wearing Pink on Set: ‘Finally I Have Permission’

Ryan Gosling liked to think about the color pink Barbie — even when the cameras weren’t working.

In fact, as his co-star Margot Robbie said Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy in a chat for Diversityseries “Actors on Actors”, many of Gosling’s fellow Kens were more than willing to put color on the set.

“There’s always guys, I feel like, who say, ‘Oh, I’m finally allowed to wear pink and dress up!’ ” said Robbie, 33. “It would get crazier and crazier until Ryan would say, ‘I think I need a mink.’ That would just get crazy.”

After Murphy, 47, jokingly asked Robbie if she was “sick of pink” yet, the two-time Oscar nominee said she wasn’t “done” with it yet, adding: “I mean, you just can’t have a Barbie a film without the color pink.”

“And everyone was really on board with that. I would make it a ‘Wednesday we wear pink’ day. You know that reference from Mean girls?” Murphy asked, referencing the moment Karen Smith (played by Amanda Seyfried) delivers the line to Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) at the beginning of the 2004 teen comedy.

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Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie on set Barbie (2023).

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“I forgot that reference,” he said Pointed glasses actor.

“On Wednesdays they wear pink. And so if you didn’t wear pink on set, you got a fine. And then I’d donate it to charity,” Robbie said.

Gosling, who played Ken in the film, previously spoke to PEOPLE about it Barbie special edition in which he shared details about Robbie’s mandatory weekly pink dress code and the charity that came from it.

“What was really special was how excited the male crew members were. At the end of the movie, they all came together and, with their own money, made pink t-shirts for the crew with rainbow fringe,” Gosling, 43, said.

“It was an opportunity for them to show their respect and admiration for what Margot and Greta were creating,” he added. “It was almost like that scene at the end Dead Poets Society, where everyone stands on their table and says: ‘Oh captain! My captain!’ ”

From L: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ryan Gosling, Margot Robbie, Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa and Scott Evans u Barbie (2023).

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Back in April, writer/director Greta Gerwig, 40, recalled during a presentation at CinemaCon 2023 in Las Vegas that Barbie the set was a dream come true for the cast and crew.

Surrounded by beautifully crafted life-size versions of iconic dollhouses, swimming pools and more, the director was understandably smitten — in the best way, to the point where she “cried the first time I stepped on set.”

“The cars that they built … it was so touching, because all the people who built the vehicles had just built the Batmobile and they were so excited to get the color pink,” Gerwig added.

Robbie couldn’t agree more, telling the filmmaker: “You were so happy; we felt it every day.”

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