Margot once said that she assured Mattell that Barbie would make a billion dollars before the movie was even greenlit. “I was like, ‘And now you’ve got Barbie and Greta Gerwig,'” she explained. “And I think I told them that it’d make a billion dollars, which maybe I was overselling, but we had a movie to make, okay?!” Last summer, Barbie made over $1.03 billion in global box office sales, becoming the first solo female-directed film ever to do this.
