Barbie: Real Life Story Behind The Sugar Daddy Ken Doll

Greta Gerwig’s Barbie was not just a revisionist satire on the toy corporation Mattel but it also featured numerous Easter Eggs for diehard Barbie fanatics, such as a blink-and-miss cameo by Sugar Daddy Ken. Starring Margot Robbie as a self-aware Barbie in a vibrant Utopia filled with many more Barbies and Kens, Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s screenplay accommodated Barbie-specific references,like a scene featuring Barbie creator Ruth Handler and several discontinued Mattel toys like the Growing Up Skipper and Earring Magic Ken dolls. As Helen Mirren’s narrator puts it in the movie, some of these products were “just too weird” to dominate toy stores.