“Just Ken” isn’t Kenough. Barbie fans might be shocked to learn that the Ken doll has both a middle and last name — and that he’s named after a real person. In fact, multiple Barbie ...

You know Barbie, right? No matter how old you are, you’ve likely owned the doll at some point or known someone who has. Since ...

But the film’s tagline immediately pegs Ken, her lovesick sidekick with the washboard abs, as a lesser piece of plastic: “(Barbie is) everything. He’s just Ken.” While brands are churning ...

From a string of eyebrow-raising statements to the press to the newly-released power ballad “I’m Just Ken,” where Barbie’s main squeeze contemplates his possible tragic “destiny to live ...

In the film, Gosling’s Ken — Barbie’s anxiety-ridden, try-hard, beta-status boyfriend — is revitalized by the patriarchy of the real world and returns to indoctrinate everyone in Barbieland.

In Barbie Land, there are Barbies, and there are Kens. For every Barbie (in this case Margot Robbie), there must be a Ken (Ryan Gosling) who supports her, props her up and longs to exist within ...

Baumbach and Gerwig said that when writing the "Barbie" script, they always had Ryan Gosling in mind to play Ken, even writing his full name next to Ken's lines in the first draft. When writing ...

The movie parodies manosphere gurus in its depiction of the Kenergetic revolution, but Ken’s plight is treated sympathetically — he’s mostly running his coup to impress Barbie, and what are ...