‘Barbie’ star Margot Robbie: The Spice Ladies taught me be a feminist

For “Barbie” star Margot Robbie, the Spice Ladies had been no feminist wannabes.

In truth, the two-time Oscar nominee attributes a few of her personal concepts about feminism — which she and director Greta Gerwig discover within the much-anticipated “Barbie” film, out July 21 — to the Nineties British lady group.

“The Spice Ladies modified every thing and dictated my model of second-wave feminism,” Robbie, 33, told Rolling Stone.

“It’s like, ‘Oh my God, they put on little sparkly clothes and push-up bras after which have a lady gang? That’s what I need to be!’”

Rising up within the ’90s, the Aussie-born Robbie additionally had a pink ardour for the Aqua bop “Barbie Girl.” On the urging of the “Babylon” actress, the 1997 hit was included on the “Barbie” soundtrack — reworked as a “Barbie World” duet that includes rappers Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice.

“I used to be like, ‘Greta, how are we going to include this tune? We are able to’t do a Barbie film and never have a nod to Aqua’s ‘Barbie Woman.’ It needs to be in there,’” Robbie told a reporter. “And [Greta] was like, ‘Don’t fear, we’re going to discover a cool strategy to incorporate it.’

“After which,” Robbie continued, “when she was like, ‘Guess who’s going to do the remix of Aqua’s ‘Barbie Woman’? Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice.’ I used to be like, ‘Collectively? Are you joking?!’ I simply knew instantly that each one my girlfriends had been going to lose their minds.”

One other supply of childhood inspo for the movie got here from the Nineteen Sixties within the type of the Seaside Boys, who had been “all [she] would take heed to.”

“I had watched a documentary about how the Seaside Boys would have been much more fashionable if the Beatles hadn’t come alongside and stolen the limelight,” she stated of the traditional California group, whose “Enjoyable, Enjoyable, Enjoyable” was featured in a “Barbie” trailer.

For Robbie, music may also help her into the groove for her roles.

“I can anchor my character and myself in both a time interval or a sure feeling,” she stated. “Music is so useful for that.”