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, or 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, or by some degree,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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Source: theguardian.com