Dress her up, make her talk, she’s your dollie double!
Emma Eastwood, 26, was heartbroken when she was rejected twice as an extra for the highly anticipated “Barbie” movie — until a casting director texted her to say: “Come on Barbie, let’s go party!”
The aspiring actress had mostly worked on commercials, music videos and short films until she was cast as Margot Robbie’s body double in the Greta Gerwig film premiering July 21.
The actress, who grew up in California and now lives in England (both filming locations for the film), had been told she looked like Robbie before, but never believed the compliments.
“It was mostly men as it was their way of flirting,” Eastwood told Kennedy News.
“Normally I would mention that I loved Margot Robbie and that’s when they would say I look like her.”
But Eastwood can no longer deny the resemblance. In fact, now that she scored a gig in the “Barbie” movie, she’s vying to be Robbie’s body double from here on out.
“I really wanted to impress Margot to hope that she would ask me to be her double forever — this would be a gig of a lifetime,” she admitted.
On her first day of filming, Eastwood woke before the sun rose and arrived on set around 6 a.m. to discover that life in plastic is fantastic.
“My first couple of days, I got a bit of the star treatment,” she confessed to the New York Times.
“I felt really spoiled,” Eastwood said, noting that she was part of a limited cast and crew on set in the shoot’s first days and even had her own trailer.
She also got to wear the same exact pretty-in-pink costumes made for Robbie, as the two share identical measurements.
“They didn’t make anything for me specifically,” she said.
But while Eastwood felt like she had it all, there were plenty of things that she was not privy to, including the plot.
“I was on this for two weeks, and I barely know what the movie is about,” she insisted. “They did a very good job of keeping the plot hidden.”
Eastwood has no inside scoop on what happens in the film and will have to wait along with every other Barbie boy and girl until it’s released to theaters to find out.
“They didn’t give me any details of what we would be doing,” she said. “There were a couple times they said the whole cast would be there and it would be an important day, but they never actually gave me any details of what we would be doing until I was on set.”
Those details included walking up a set of stairs as if her feet hurt — a clip that was included in the trailer — and lying on the ground facedown for an hour.
“When I got up, I literally felt drunk,” she said. “I have no idea what that scene was about.”
Despite being kept out of the loop, Eastwood still feels honored to have Barbie listed among her credits.
“I sometimes forget I actually played Barbie — it’s crazy,” she told Kennedy News. “I appreciate how big of an icon Barbie is and am extremely excited to be a part of it.”
