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Miss America: Why I'm excited for Barbenheimer

Two big films are due out on the same day this week: Barbie, the new Greta Gerwig movie about Barbie and Ken travelling from Barbie Land to the real world, and Oppenheimer, the new Christopher Nolan movie about J Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist behind the first nuclear weapons.

Some people are planning to see both films on the same day, in what is being called a "Barbenheimer".
Grace Stanke, 21, is one of those people. She is the current holder of the Miss America title and also a nuclear engineering student in Wisconsin. Newshour's Ben James spoke to Grace and asked her which film she would see first.

(Photo: Grace Stanke attends the American Heart Association's Red Dress Collection Concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. Credit: Getty Images)

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