Simu Liu Reveals What Really Makes Barbie Land So Amazing

While that’s how Barbie began, Simu continued, “thankfully, it has evolved to be more inclusive, to be more diverse, to accommodate differently abled people, all sorts of body types and ethnicities and colors and gender expressions.”

And though America Ferrera doesn’t play a Barbie in the film, she told E! News’ Keltie Knight that was it “really exciting” to be a part of a project that was “expanding this narrative” that she never felt she was a part of growing up. 

“It didn’t reflect me and it wasn’t accessible to me,” America, who is the daughter of Honduran immigrants, explained. “It was aspirational outside of my reach, so to get to be a part of a moment that is really going to include so many people that maybe have not felt included in cultural mainstream storytelling, it’s really exciting.”