Poor long-suffering Allan. Performed by Michael Cera, Ken’s buddy helps stage a coup, fights a bunch of rogue Kens, and helps the Barbies carry peace and order again to Barbie Land … however why? As he says to Gloria and Barbie when the Kens take over: “I can not sit on yet one more leather-based sofa, it’ll break my spirit.” So why does he keep? Properly, in an interview with ScreenRant, Cera mentioned it is as a result of he thinks Allan is likely to be in love with Ken.
“The way in which I learn it within the script was that Allan is type of obsessive about Ken, if not in love with him,” Cera defined. “I like that he simply desires the perfect for Ken, even when which means Ken not being close to him. He desires Ken’s happiness. I believed that was type of a lifetime of servitude in a manner. Distant craving.” Greta Gerwig additionally mentioned in her director’s commentary, “Allan is probably the most tragic determine in Barbie Land, which Michael and I made a decision could be right for Allan — that not all people will get their fantasy.”
Star and producer Margot Robbie weighed in on potential queerness in Barbieland, saying in an interview with Angle, “They’re all dolls, so they do not even have sexual orientations as a result of they have no organs or reproductive organs.” Nonetheless, many critics — particularly at LGBTQ+ retailers Them and Out — have recognized Allan because the queer core of “Barbie.” Possibly someday there shall be a spin-off challenge that provides Allan his due. Till then, he can put on all of Ken’s garments.