Greta Gerwig Tells Us The 'Barbie' F-Bomb She Cut, And The Historical Figure It Involved

Interview with Greta Gerwig

Transcript

00:00 In the Vogue article that just came out recently, there's reference to a joke on page one that

00:06 made, I believe, Margot's jaw drop to the floor, and then it says that the joke didn't

00:11 make it into the movie.

00:12 And I'm curious as to what that joke was.

00:15 Oh, well, suffice to say, there was a sort of extended joke with Marie Curie, which didn't

00:23 end up being part of it.

00:25 But yes, there was a page one F-bomb that we were just sort of set the tone for the

00:33 whole thing.

00:34 Who said it?

00:35 Well, it was actually, it was the, what the line was, it was actually Helen Mirren saying

00:43 to Marie Curie, "Pipe the fuck down, Marie Curie."

00:46 But that was like my favorite.

00:49 I was like, because you know you only get like one F-bomb.

00:51 You gave it to Issa, right?

00:52 Doesn't Issa get it?

00:53 No, Issa gets it, but we knew we only got one F-bomb, and we were like, well, let's

00:56 use it at the very beginning as, and there's just something to me, Helen Mirren saying,

01:02 "Pipe the fuck down, Marie Curie."

01:04 Did she record the line?

01:05 Oh, yes.

01:06 So the audio's there.

01:07 The audio exists.

01:08 There's an audio somewhere in the world of her saying, "Pipe the fuck down, Marie Curie,"

01:10 with like a proper British voice.

01:12 But it just, it was something in the editing that didn't end up making the cut.

01:17 But yes, that was, I would say, the line that everyone was like, "Oh, no.

01:21 No, no."

01:22 Great line.

01:23 But it'll live on in this podcast.

01:26 - Now we have it.

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