Greta Gerwig's Catholic school upbringing heavily inspired a few scenes in the 'Barbie' movie

• Greta Gerwig says that her Catholic upbringing influenced the way she made the "Barbie" movie.

• The filmmaker told AP News that she "resonates" with "older story forms" because she went to Catholic school.

• This is not the first time Gerwig or the "Barbie" cast spoke about the film's religious references.

Greta Gerwig's Catholic upbringing had a big influence on the way she made the "Barbie" film — and it's evident in a couple of scenes.

Speaking in an interview with AP News, the filmmaker explained that there are strong parallels between Biblical stories and the movie's setting.

"In the movie, like when it starts, she's in a world where there's no aging or death or pain or shame or self-consciousness, and then she suddenly becomes self-conscious — that's a really old story," Gerwig told AP News. "And we know that story."

Gerwig says that she has a tendency to rely on these "older story forms" due to her Catholic upbringing.

"I think I always go back to those older story forms because I went to Catholic school and I resonate with them," she added.

The 39-year-old attended St. Francis Catholic High School, an all-female school in Sacramento, California. She's listed as an alumnus on the school's webpage.

This is not the first time that Gerwig — or the "Barbie" cast — spoke about the film's references to religious art and tales.

In the movie, there's a scene where Barbie meets her inventor, Ruth Handler, that was filmed in a way that references a famous piece of religious art, Gerwig told USA Today on Thursday.

"There's this shot where Ruth hands Barbie a cup of tea, and the way we lined it up is the exact way that God is touching Adam on the Sistine Chapel," Gerwig said.

In an interview with Vogue that was published in May, Gerwig also referenced the creation of the Barbie doll to the creation myth in the Bible.

"Barbie was invented first," Gerwig told Vogue. "Ken was invented after Barbie, to burnish Barbie's position in our eyes and in the world. That kind of creation myth is the opposite of the creation myth in Genesis."

Margot Robbie — who plays the film's titular character — also told Vogue in the same interview that Gerwig even wrote "an abstract poem about Barbie" that was similar to the Apostles Creed to help set the tone of the film.

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