It’s a speech for the ages, and Ferrera delivers it with a perfect balance of confidence, frustration, and passion.
In a moment of deep frustration, Gloria launches into an epic speech about the demands placed on women to be all things to all people, and be grateful at all times. Gloria and her teenage daughter Sasha ( Ariana Greenblatt) end up going back to Barbie Land with Barbie, only to discover-spoiler alert!-that the Barbies have been brainwashed into turning their feminist home into a patriarchy run by the Kens. In Barbie, Ferrera plays Gloria, a Mattel employee who meets a life-size Barbie ( Margot Robbie) that has stumbled into the real world. “It worked on the page, and so I definitely wanted to give that feeling to the audience as the person performing it-to make it resonate the way that it did with me when I read the words on the page.” “To be able to hear audiences connecting to it in that way with a response like that is amazing,” says Ferrera, who spoke to Vanity Fair two days after the LA premiere and the day before the SAG-AFTRA strike began. The audience at the Los Angeles premiere of the film broke out into cheers after her character, Gloria, completed it.
That also means you’ve experienced America Ferrera’s epic monologue, which somehow captures every contradictory demand put on women in modern society.
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