Nicki Minaj Shares Initial Reaction To ‘Barbie’ Movie: ‘Nailed It’
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“The film is so visually stimulating. The actors can actually act and the comedic timing is actually on time,” she said at the pink carpet premiere
Nicki Minaj switched careers to film criticism briefly on Monday, following Sunday’s world premiere in Los Angeles for Barbie.
The “Do We Have a Problem?” rapper, 40, stood beside Barbie star Margot Robbie on the pink carpet, even retweeting a video of the two posing together. “She’s strikingly gorgeous in person,” Minaj wrote online before going into her review of the film.
“Btw, the entire cast of this movie nailed it,” Minaj said in the tweet. “The film is so visually stimulating. The actors can actually act, & the comedic timing is actually on time. Bravo. I’ll see it again & give my final analysis around the 21st. Will Ferrell, I 💖 U.”
Minaj is included on the star-studded Barbie soundtrack, which includes Dua Lipa‘s single “Dance the Night.” Minaj’s contribution to the album is “Barbie World,” a collaboration with Ice Spice that samples Aqua’s 1997 hit “Barbie Girl.”
“Thx, Forbes & s/o all the incredibly talented artists/producers on the #BarbieMovie soundtrack. Mark Ronson, Kev Weaver, Greta Gerwig, Mattel… you guys could have chosen anyone to be a part of this project,” Minaj tweeted Monday. “Glad you knew how much it would mean to the barbz & me. So Grateful.”
Lizzo, Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Tame Impala, Haim, Dominic Fike, Sam Smith, and Khalid are also included on the album. Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken opposite Robbie’s Barbie, performed the song “I’m Just Ken” for the soundtrack.
Barbie was directed by Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the movie with Noah Baumbach. Hari Nef, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Mackey, Sharon Rooney, Nicola Coughlan, Ana Cruz Kayne, Ritu Arya, and Lipa, 27, all play different iterations of Barbie alongside Robbie, 33. Kingsley Ben-Adir, Simu Liu, Scott Evans, Ncuti Gatwa, and John Cena join Gosling, 42, as different Kens.
