Oliver Stone clarifies Barbie comments: ‘I apologize for speaking ignorantly’

Oliver Stone thinks Barbie was Kenough.

After quotes from a 2023 interview with City AM recirculated and seemed to show the JFK filmmaker antagonizing Greta Gerwig’s movie, Stone wrote a post on social media to set the record straight.

Stone clarified he made the comments "before the film even came out" adding, “[a]t the time, I was busy promoting my nuclear documentary in Europe and had little to no knowledge of the project beyond its title.”

“I was able to see Barbie in a theater back in July and appreciated the film for its originality and its themes,” Stone said later in his statement. “I found the filmmakers’ approach certainly different than what I expected. I apologize for speaking ignorantly.”

Stone went on to praise Barbie’s director. “Greta Gerwig’s 2017 film Lady Bird was one of my favorites of that year,” he wrote. “Barbie’s box office greatly boosted the morale of our business, which was welcome. I wish Greta and the entire Barbie team good fortune at the Oscars.”

Stone had previously appeared to criticize the movie by saying that star Ryan Gosling should seek out different kinds of projects. “Ryan Gosling is wasting his time if he’s doing that s--- for money,” the Wall Street filmmaker said last year. “He should be doing more serious films. He shouldn’t be a part of this infantilization of Hollywood. Now it’s all fantasy, fantasy, fantasy, including all the war pictures: fantasy, fantasy.”

Guess Stone fell for the Kenergy Gosling was serving after all.

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