America Ferrera Reveals She Performed Her Epic 'Barbie' Speech '30 to 50 Times' on Set

America Ferrera’s Barbie monologue was no small feat.

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the Barbie star, 39, opened up about taking on the epic speech and how it became one of the hit film’s most memorable and talked-about moments.

The speech is, in the actress’s words, about the “impossible assignment” modern women face, “being all things to all people.”

Ferrera, who plays Gloria, a Mattel employee from the real world — not Barbie Land — in the record-breaking film, told VF that it was “amazing” to hear about the moving responses audiences had to the monologue.

She said the emotional speech “felt like pressure in the nicest way” when she first stepped into the world of Barbie.

“It's one of the first things Greta mentioned to me even before I read the script,” she told the outlet. “She said, ‘I wrote this monologue for Gloria, and I've always imagined you saying this.'"

She continued, “I read the monologue and it hit me as powerful and meaningful. It also felt like, ‘Wow, what a gift as an actor to get to deliver something that feels so cathartic and truthful.’ But it also felt like this pivotal moment that I obviously didn't want to mess up.”

“There was a little bit of healthy pressure around it,” she added.

The Ugly Betty star shared that she “initially felt” the monologue would not end up as “straightforward and real” as it did in the film.

"I assumed that there might be a tone that maybe made it, I don't know, I guess easier for people to hear or to swallow,” she told VF. “Greta really didn't want that. She wanted it to just sound like the truth.”

To relay this truth to audiences, Ferrera said it took what “felt like 500” takes in two days — but she is “sure it wasn't.” Realistically, the actress said, “it was probably 30 to 50 full runs of it, top to bottom.”

When they wrapped the final take, Ariana Greenblatt, who portrays her daughter Sasha in the film, could recite the monologue herself, Ferrera said: "She had memorized it because that's how many times I had said it."

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The Greta Gerwig-directed film came out on top at the box office over the weekend, scoring $155 million in its opening run and marking the biggest debut ever for a film directed by a woman.

Barbie is now playing in theaters.