While the two dolls are boyfriend and girlfriend in the film, they never kiss, due to the innocent nature of their relationship. In the trailer, Ken asks Barbie if he can stay over at her place.
Before Barbie came out, Robbie explained to Vogue that she played Barbie as if she didn't feel sexual desire, which also may have contributed to her lack of feelings for Ken. “I'm like, Okay, she's a doll. She's a plastic doll. She doesn't have organs.
Having Ken and Barbie kiss just didn't seem to organically fit the script, the “Barbie” leads said in an interview with People. “It was so funny trying to figure out what their idea of kissing might be,” Gosling said. “I'm so glad all of that got cut out.”
Fans didn't get to see Barbie and Ken lock lips on screens because Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling couldn't envision how their toy characters would kiss. When the leading duo spoke to PEOPLE about the film's lack of smooching, Robbie revealed that she got a little flak for the missing moment.
Meanwhile, Gosling was happy to lose the kissing scenes: "I'm so glad all of that got cut out." Barbie and Ken might look like the picture-perfect couple, but in director Greta Gerwig's Barbie, they never even properly smooch.
Barbie (2023) Why Didn't KEN and BARBIE Kiss In The Movie? FINAL THEORY
Who is Ken Barbie's boyfriend?
Ken (short for Kenneth Carson) hit the toy aisle as Barbie's buyable boyfriend two years after her 1959 debut. He was available in two styles — blond or brunette hair, made of hard plastic — and came dressed in very short red swim trunks. He cost $3.50 and shared a name with the son of Barbie's creator, Ruth Handler.
“It was so funny trying to figure out what their idea of kissing might be,” Gosling told People during the joint interview with Robbie earlier this month. “I'm so glad all of that got cut out.”
But perhaps the most heart-wrenching lesson of the movie came in a scene that Gerwig was asked to cut, and which she called the "heart of the movie:" a scene in which Barbie experiences crying for the first time. Sacrebleu! (Or, perhaps, sacre-rose?) Behold how our blond bombshell learns to turn on the waterworks.
But if you haven't heard, the Motion Picture Association actually gave Barbie, Ken, and the gang a PG-13 rating! It never once crossed my mind that perhaps Barbie might be inappropriate for my 8-year-old daughter.
Sugar Daddy Ken is a satirical knock-off doll that made a hilarious cameo appearance in the movie Barbie, poking fun at the legacy of the iconic doll. Released in 2009 as a special edition for adult collectors, Sugar Daddy Ken was quickly discontinued due to controversy surrounding its suggestive name and appearance.
Technically, Ken has no official age (he is a doll, after all) although he was first introduced as Barbie's boyfriend on March 11, 1961, which means he has been around for 62 years. (Barbie was created in 1959, which would make her 64.)
But the real-life Barbie and Ken were never a couple. The plastic dolls were actually named for a sister and brother – the children of Mattel cofounder and Barbie creator Ruth Handler.
In February 2004, Mattel announced a split for Ken and Barbie, with Russell Arons, vice president of marketing at Mattel, saying that Barbie and Ken "feel it's time to spend some quality time – apart...
Because Ken feels like an accessory to Barbie, and not a genuine part of her life (like her boyfriend or best friend). He is having an existential crisis.
While the film does not dive into trans identity, Barbie still manages to touch upon LGBTQ+ issues without naming them as such. In fact, the film features several openly LGBTQ+ actors, like Hari Nef, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp, and Scott Evans.
The movie also features shirtless Kens, a comedic “battle” scene involving toy weapons and a few references to “brewskys” (beer). As for language, parents can expect one bleeped out use of the word “motherf*****,” as well as the use of other mildly bad words like “hell, “shutup,” “crap” and “damn.”
It solidifies the understanding that reproductive health is an integral part of overall health. I hope that will be one of the main takeaways from the scene, which is that every girl, every woman, every person who has female reproductive organs should seek regular preventive care to address their reproductive health.
By the late 1980s, Midge was back on shelves as part of the California Dream Barbie set. Then, she was re-released in the 1990s wearing a wedding dress, and again in 2002 with a detachable magnetic pregnant stomach, which allowed her to “deliver” a small plastic baby curled up inside, per CBS News.
It wasn't until 1972 that Barbie embraced pink, going full force in 1976 with everything from clothes and accessories to the packaging and the font taking on the vibrant hue. This move, as Culmone pointed out, was done intentionally. "It's not a quiet or shy pink," she said. "It's strong, it's powerful."
While the original Barbie doll, meant as a high fashion toy, didn't have pink marketing, in the 70s, Mattel made a push to market the doll to young girls, instead of adolescent girls, and used pink as the main color for the doll's brand identity.
Apparently, Barbie will never get married. According to the wishes of Barbie creator Ruth Handler, part of Barbie's appeal to young children was that she defied patriarchal norms, and would never walk down the aisle toward Ken or have children. I'm sorry to say, Ruth, but that wasn't how we played it.
Male dolls had traditionally been losers in the marketplace. But consumers so pushed for a boyfriend doll that Mattel finally released it in 1961. The reason for their demand was obvious: Barbie taught girls what was expected of women and a woman in the fifties would have been a failure without a male consort.”
Calculating Barbie's age from her manufacturing debut, the first Barbie doll is now over 64 years old. Considering that Barbie was created as a 19-year-old doll, she could technically be up to 83 years old. However, in the past, Mattel has reportedly said that Barbie is frozen in time at age 19.
