Greta Gerwig: Barbenheimer made it feel like people were going to cinemas again

Greta Gerwig and Lauren Laverne (Amanda Benson/ BBC)

Greta Gerwig has said the Barbenheimer phenomenon made it feel like “everyone was going to the movies again”.

The Barbie film, directed and co-written by Gerwig, was released in July on the same day as the Christopher Nolan epic Oppenheimer, leading to a nickname that merged the film titles together.