Greta Gerwig says her son has ‘moments of high drama’: ‘That’s from me’

Greta Gerwig has joked that she knows where her four-year-old son Harold Ralph gets his penchant for “high drama” from: his mother.

The Barbie director, 39, opened up about her family life in a new interview, recalling that her and partner Noah Baumbach’s eldest child will sometimes “fall to the floor” during his more theatrical moments.

Speaking to the Guardian, she recalled: “He did this the other day. I wasn’t able to make him breakfast instantly, because I was feeding my three-month-old and he fell to the floor, weeping, and said, ‘I’m having a sorely trying day. It’s already a problem’.

“I was like, ‘Oh, such drama’. But also, like, ‘Oh, that’s from me’. That’s my level of grandiose. And the part of him that’s more watchful, I think, ‘Oh, that’s Noah, that’s nice’.”

Gerwig, who welcomed her second child with Baumbach earlier this year, said that she doesn’t “get bored” of working at home with her whole family present.

“It’s all in there together. Nobody in the family escapes the intermingling,” she said.

When asked about her relationship with Baumbach, 53, Gerwig said the film director is her “favourite person to work with”.

“His opinion matters the most to me,” she said. “I love making him laugh. It’s the best feeling. When he watches a cut and something makes him really laugh, I’m, like, ‘Got it!’”

She also described herself as an “extrovert”, whereas her partner is an “introvert”.

“I fling myself at life, he kind of… takes his time,” Gerwig said. “You know, underneath it all, we both just love movies and art.”

Gerwig and Baumbach met in 2010 on the set of his film Greenberg, which he directed and co-wrote with his wife at the time, Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Five months after the film premiered, Baumbach and Leigh divorced. According to The New Yorker, Gerwig was not a contributing factor to the couple’s divorce.

Baumbach collaborated once again with Gerwig on the 2012 film Frances Ha, which they co-wrote. The pair became romantically linked around this time after a Los Angeles Times article called them a “real-life couple”.

They prefer to keep their relationship under wraps, but made their red carpet debut as a couple at the Golden Globe Awards in 2018. They arrived on the carpet together and wore matching black outfits.

Gerwig revealed that she went into labour with their first child 24 hours after finishing the rough cut of her film Little Women. She announced her second pregnancy during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in December last year.

Gerwig and Baumbach are currently awaiting the release of their latest collaboration, Barbie, which premieres on 21 July.

The film stars Margot Robbie as the title character, Ryan Gosling as Ken, as well as a slew of other famous names (such as Issa Rae and Michael Cera) who appear as various iterations of Barbie and Ken.