'Barbie' movie's pink paint splurge led to global shortage, production designer says
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Creating the perfect backdrop for the upcoming "Barbie" movie required so much pink paint that it led to a global shortage, according to its production designer.
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"Barbie" movie needed so much pink paint, it caused an international shortage
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'Barbie' movie's pink paint splurge led to global shortage, production designer says
The 'Barbie' film used so much pink paint that it depleted the global reserves of its supplier, Rosco, which were already limited by supply chain issues.
Creating the perfect backdrop for the upcoming "Barbie" movie required so much pink paint that it led to a global shortage, according to its production designer.
A Barbie production designer said "the world ran out of pink" because of how much paint the movie set needed. It had apparently been in short supply to begin with.
They cleaned out the entire global stock of one paint supplier's pink. A spokesperson for the Rosco brand says supply chain issues made it hard to keep up.
The film’s production designer Sarah Greenwood says ‘the world ran out of pink’ during construction of Barbieland and lifesize versions of the doll’s Dreamhouse
