“The whole Barbie stuff, I actually wanted to be called the Buff Barbie Doll since the very beginning,” Stratton said. “I pitched the Barbie stuff for a while, and they always told me that, ‘Oh, we ...

There are a thousand densely layered visual and verbal jokes in Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s script for Barbie, but one in particular stands out, because it’s a light gag with such massive story ...