[Editor's note: The following contains spoilers for Greta Gerwig's "Barbie."]
LOS ANGELES — As a kid with a precocious mind for make-believe, America Ferrera never felt like a Barbie girl in a Barbie world.
She didn't have Barbie dolls at home — her family couldn't afford them, Ferrera says. She played with them only while visiting a cousin's house. So co-starring in a summer blockbuster about the enduring American symbol of girlhood, in all its bubblegum-pink glory, wasn't wish-fulfillment for her.
