Barbie Star Exposes Dark Side of Photoshoot

‘Barbie’ actress Issa Rae says she had a “worst day” of life on set while shooting ‘Dance The Night’

Barbie  was a fun experience for all the actors on Greta Gerwig’s set. But, for Issa Rae, who played President Barbie, one particular scene that did not sit well: Dua Lipa’s Dance The Night.

In a chat with The Hollywood Reporter, the Insecure actress revealed the performing on the track in the film was “the worst day” of her life.

“Doing the Dua Lipa song and dancing to it was my worst nightmare. It was the worst day of my life,” she added.

The 39-year-old proceeded, “It was the greatest day of my life being on that set. It was energizing, and afterward, in a real sense the main day, I needed to get familiar with the movement to shoot the [following] day.”

Taking note of, “We additionally didn’t have the verses to the melody, Greta was like, ‘Gracious, it will be a Dua Lipa tune.’ However the sum total of what we had was the instrumental, so I was very much like, ‘What the ** is this? What am I moving to?’

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