Greta Gerwig doesn’t appear too upset over the polarizing “Barbie” joke Jo Koy made throughout his gig internet hosting the 2024 Golden Globes. Koy acquired principally detrimental critiques for his internet hosting stint, and the “Barbie” joke led to backlash on social media as many viewers thought Koy was being reductive and sexist towards the movie.

Throughout his opening monologue, Koy tipped his hat to the “Barbenheimer” phenomenon by jokingly evaluating Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” and Gerwig’s “Barbie.”

“‘Oppenheimer’ is predicated on the 721-page Pulitzer Prize-winning guide concerning the Manhattan Mission — and ‘Barbie’ is a few plastic doll with massive boobies,” he joked because the viewers responded with a muted giggle.

On condition that Gerwig’s “Barbie” actively fights towards gender stereotypes, many Golden Globes viewers discovered Koy’s joke to be tasteless and never wanted. Nonetheless, Gerwig appeared on BBC Radio 4 Right this moment and had a unique, extra glass-half-full take when requested concerning the joke.

“Nicely, he’s not improper,” Gerwig mentioned about Koy. “She’s the primary doll that was mass-produced with breasts, so he was proper on. And , I feel that a lot of the venture of the film was unlikely as a result of it’s a few plastic doll…The perception that Ruth Handler had when she was watching her daughter play with child dolls, is she realized, ‘My daughter doesn’t wish to fake to be a mom. She needs to fake to be a grown girl.’” 

Gerwig’s movie received the first-ever Golden Globe for cinematic and field workplace achievement, hardly a shock provided that it was each a vital hit and field workplace power with $1.4 billion worldwide. These ticket gross sales made the comedy the highest-grossing film of 2023, plus the highest earner in Warner Bros.’ historical past.

“It was very fantastic and emotional to have the ability to take to the stage with the group that made it,” Gerwig mentioned of profitable the Globe. “It felt very becoming… for all of us, the factor that we wished most of all was to attach with folks and to have folks share an expertise within the cinemas, within the film theatres. It felt like, though this can be a model new award, it felt prefer it was the award to honor that and that was all the time what we wished to do.”

The field workplace achievement award was simply one in every of two accolades to “Barbie” on the 2024 Golden Globes, as Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Issues” prevailed in the very best movement image comedy or musical class. Gerwig’s comedy nonetheless stays on observe for a boatload of Oscar nominations, and it most not too long ago picked up 4 Display Actors Guild Award nominations, together with excellent ensemble solid in a movement image.

Koy appeared on “GMA3: What You Must Know” the morning after the Golden Globes and admitted that he “fell quick” as host and that he had an “off night time.”