Comment on Nancy Meyers: ‘I don’t see a lot of movies about complicated women … I think it’s gotten worse’

Nancy Meyers: ‘I don’t see a lot of movies about complicated women … I think it’s gotten worse’

From Private Benjamin to The Intern, Nancy Meyers has championed women’s stories in Hollywood for 35 years. Why are there so few directors like her?It wasn’t until I rushed out of my interview with Nancy Meyers, five panicky minutes early, in order to express some milk in Claridge’s hotel bathroom, having given birth three weeks ago that I realised something: I wasn’t interviewing Meyers – I was a character in one of her movies.Throughout her 35-year career, Meyers – who is, by some measure, the most commercially successful female writer and director in Hollywood – has focused on what she describes as “telling women’s stories”.

 

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