today, film and television star, kate mckinnon.

i think kate mckinnon is saying you're denying half of your own potential humanity.s true. but the next part of the season, she's probably not meaning this, and how we like to -- we need to just be ourselves. maybe being yourself is just being a female or a male and embracing -- carley: this is a weird one to me because i think it's for adults. it's interesting, because it's the barbie movie. of. will: i don't know if kate mckinnon saying this, but there are varying images and prototypes and options for women to be women. there is all kinds of versions of femininity. we are living in an age though which this is so so counterintuitive, but it's actually the truth. if you vary, i guess, from a traditional vision of femininity, you're being considered to -- encouraged to consider you are, in fact, a man. pete: yeah. will: in a lot of ways, the trans movement has reinforced the narrow vision of femininity on both sides of the spectrumming because it's saying to women, hey, if you're not these things, maybe you're not a woman. and it's also saying to men if you want to be

hi, i'm is a showed up so far. kate mckinnon. you recall from s to mail, so they're slowly showing up. i'm expecting the 2 biggest lead characters, obviously ryan gosling who plays kin. and obviously margot robbie who plays very that is not showed up yet. they're probably going to be fashionably late in los angeles. of coming in right is the premier starts probably about 6 of 630 on the dock here in los angeles, but we're eagerly waiting for them to show up a so far. there's a lot of fans out there. i'm seeing a lot of people would sign people are just very excited. they have a lot of merchandise out there too. and a lot of prompts for people to see. so it's all barbie premier is just, you know, a dream come true for warner brothers, a studio to put it out and also for the tail. the company behind the bar. we don't support to find the solution for that from you, but also for the movie. why do you think this movie has captured the popular imagination like it has? i think it's because it's universal. there really probably isn't a f

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kate mckinnon, weird barbie. >> hi, i'm weird barbie, i have a funky haircut, i smell like basement.eird barbie! >> we've all known those dolls where kids cut their hair, have drawn on their faces. somehow they're in the corner with their clothes off. >> yes, yes. getting to wear a kooky outfit and kooky wigs and kooky stuff on my face, that's where i feel most at home and like myself. so it was just perfect. oh my god, i just loved every second of it. >> was it significant to you that this film was sort of one that was all about inclusivity and it's not just the stereotype of barbie? >> of course. i mean, i think the only hesitation was just like, where do i fit in this particular barbie world? what will the barbie world look like? no one wants to be tokenized in that world. but stepping onto that set, that was part of the beauty was that it was just so much representation, there was so much of everyone. >> i guess you're not ken because there are many kens. you're alan. so alan is? >> alan is just hoping not to be left behind. he wants to jump on with barbie's evolution. the movie

please give it up for margot robbie, issa rae, kate mckinnon, america ferrera. such an incredible cast of women, and men, but last time you were here, you said you were going to learn french and banjo. have you started? >> no. my new year's resolutions got pushed aside. i am looking for a banjo teacher. ♪ ♪ >> he could teach you. he is just busy a lot. your mom was a teacher. >> my mom was a french teacher. she's got you. >> kelly: you have this covered. >> no excuses. >> kelly: i love that your mom is a teacher. did you ever think about going into that field? >> me, no. we used to do take your daughter to work day. kids are terrible. she taught at my younger siblings school so they had it way worse. >> kelly: we have loved you on "snl." i have seen you so much in my household. your ghostbusters is my son's favorite. i have seen it a billion times. you are so funny and did you grow up watching a lot of comedy? >> my parents are very funny. they use all these quotes that i thought were english phrases. so it was very much in the culture of the home. >> kelly: wer

if you want to see leslie jones naked, just ask mark and kate mckinnon. the alien showed my mind.the furnace of all creation. what we would call god, what. these fancy cats are seeing god. meanwhile i'm starting phase two, which is me sitting on a stool while 40 gray aliens take turns gently batting my knockers up. and then it spread into movies. suddenly, the biggest comedy stars in the world are melissa mccarthy, kristen wiig. this is some classy here. jesus, megan, i'm sorry. i want to apologize. i'm not even confident of which end that came out of. bridesmaids came out, and it was like, this is going to be the definitive answer as to why women are funny. now, i know women are funny for years because i have a vagina, but oh my. okay. oh no. they just hadn't made it to the big screen in the way that they did with bridesmaids happening. it's happening. it's happening. it's happening. it showed studios that you could make money with that and it opened that genre of women behaving badly. officer donuts why don't you go back into your squad car and go save a kitten from a tree becau

carley: kate mckinnon plays one of the dolls. about it. >> i knew it was going to be something and then i read it and it was like about sort of how gender roles deny people of half their humanity and how we need to just like be ourselves. carley: what do you think about that comment from her? >> look, i'm all for people being them themselves. i love kate. i think she's hysterical. there's also something to being who you are, embracing your inner beauty, outer beauty, femininity. that's who barbie is, teaching young girls they can be feminine and successful. there's nothing w wrong with th. carley: are you going to see the movie? >> probably not. you think it would be a kid movie. but it looks like it's for adults. >> i have two little girls. i probably won't take them to see it. i would vet it first. i'm all about pink. i love pink. it's my signature color. carley: you're looking great in it right now. there's something to be said about going back to the basics. i think that's why top gun was so successful last summer because it

. >> reporter: she joined on screen by kate mckinnon who plays weird barbie. >> getting to where like my god. >> hi. i'm weird barbie. i have a funky hair cut and smell like basement. >> reporter: but america has perhaps the most memorable scene as gloria, a mom, who reminds us of the struggle modern day women grapple with every day. >> mom, are you really gonna let barbie take you to an imaginary land? >> yes. do you want to know why? because i never get to do anything. >> reporter: i asked your co-stars this and i want to ask you this. fill in the blank. barbie is -- >> all of us. i just hope people love it. i think they will. i hope they feel good about themselves watching it. like, i don't know. i feel like there's some sort of relief in this movie, that the message is ultimately, you're good. you're good as you are. >> good as you are. it's pretty good, too. a really fun movie. spoiler alert. the real life barbie, the doll was named for, has a cameo in the film. another fun fact. there was so much pink used on the set in england for this film that reportedly there was a shortage

so that went into this movie, one of the characters that kate mckinnon plays. >> margot robbie is barbier margot. ryan, he just made me and my writing partner laugh when we thought about it. we were like, he's so funny, but he's funny because he takes it so seriously. that's where his comedy comes from. honestly, it was like, okay this is for ryan. then we gave the script for the studio. we were like, that's amazing. you know ryan. i have never met ryan. do you know ryan? oh, we're gonna have to get. it took sometime to coordinate everything. i just never saw it with anyone else. the comedy is just so truthful and rooted in real feelings. >> i think he's perfect for this. obviously. something you did, which i love. you took the incredible cast and you had a barbie sleepover before you started filming. what was that like? >> in a way i wanted to do something that felt like part of childhood to bond everyone because so much of making a barbie movie is remembering your childhood. all the barbies had a sleepover. and then the kens came by for like playing charades and stuff and then left whe

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