Greta Gerwig is the woman of the moment.
If “Barbie” manages to make that pull, it wouldn’t have been an overnight masterstroke.
Already with multiple Oscar-certified projects to her name in her nascent solo filmmaking career, Gerwig has unstoppable dreams.
“I want to play in lots of different worlds.”
Her artistic inclinations changed as an older schoolgirl, when she became greatly drawn to theater.
“I thought, Wait, are we allowed to do that?”
As she told Variety, “We were learning a tremendous amount about how movies were put together.”
And the rest, as they say, is history!
Gerwig has traced quite a journey in the realm of storytelling.
“All of the things that Jo is, I was.”
They were, as she put it toCrashmagazine in an interview, her “jam.”
For one, Gerwig didn’t shy away from making those similarities amply clear herself.
“There’s a core of emotional truth that’s very resonant,” she said.
“I’ve been waiting 30 years!”
she toldTime, emphasizing how doggedly she pursued the production to have her name attached to it.
She became close with Saoirse Ronan
Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.Wes Anderson and Bill Murray.
Christopher Nolan and Cillian Murphy.
Great cinema is built on the foundation of iconic actor-director pairings.
That was sort of instant," Ronan toldThe Hollywood Reporterin a joint interview with Gerwig.
“Lady Bird” is a telling exhibit.
“It has a tremendous amount of love and a tremendous amount of angst.”
“My parents were hippies a bit.
Her mother was a nurse and her father worked in finance.
However, he also dabbled in multiple instruments, keeping the family home musically alive.
“I drink too much coffee.
I used to smoke a lot of cigarettes,” she toldCrashmagazine.
A doctor she visited apparently suggested that her lifestyle and dependent habits pointed to self-medication for undiagnosed ADHD.
The signs, she acknowledged, were always there.
Thus began a professional collaboration that would come to dominate cinematic discourse and eventually also romantic Hollywood legend.
Baumbach was amidst a divorce with Jennifer Jason Leigh when he and Gerwig coupled up.
“He’s my favorite filmmaker and my favorite writer.
It means everything to me that he thinks it’s good,” Gerwig toldThe Hollywood Reporter.
Their overlapping lives translate to an overarching impact on each other’s works.
The pair lives in New York with their two young sons.
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach sure can.
Notwithstanding the competition, Gerwig and Baumbach retained a collaborative approach through it all.
Greta Gerwig ultimately settled in New York
Greta Gerwig isn’t particularly fond of Los Angeles.
For one, “I like walking.
And you don’t walk in L.A.,” she told Crash magazine.
“I like public transportation and public spaces and being around people.”
I still feel grateful every day.”
It’s not as if Gerwig plans to only make women-centric films.
As she toldMichigan Daily, “I’m sure I’ll make a lot of other films.”
However, she revealed these themes remain a deliberate and active focus for her.
But the filmmaker has figured out a way to positively channel that stress on her film sets.
She disclosed that the process of beginning work on the fantasy film was nothing short of terrifying.
“It felt like vertigo starting to write it.
Like, where do you even begin?”
she shared on Dua Lipa’s"At Your Service"podcast.
The undertaking, however, entailed something she dubbed “interesting terror.”
