Greta Gerwig has confessed to eating Cheetos in “staggering quantities” while filming a movie, a habit that could explain why she prefers not to take a lunch break while on set.
The Barbie filmmaker and her husband, director Noah Baumbach, have shared their perspectives on the challenges of maintaining creative momentum during a workday.
Talking about the Ruthie’s Table 4 PodcastBaumbach, 55, admitted: “It’s difficult to come back with the same strength” after a lunch break.
Gerwig, 41, suggested a compromise: “The only version that works – and it was given to me by David Lynch – is that if you meditate during lunch, you’ll get a second morning.”
“Whether it’s a casual meditation or not, it’s a chance to recharge a little before continuing to make decisions.”
He added: “If you tell the team you’re going to meditate, they sort of think maybe I should do it.”
Greta Gerwig has confessed to eating Cheetos in “staggering quantities” while filming a movie, a habit that could explain why she prefers not to take a lunch break while on set.

The Barbie filmmaker and her husband, fellow director Noah Baumbach, have shared their perspectives on the challenges of maintaining creative momentum during a workday (Greta seen on set)
Despite her mindfulness approach, Gerwig admitted to having unglamorous eating habits when immersed in movies.
‘I’m going back to really youthful eating habits. I eat Cheetos in staggering quantities. Cheetos and Diet Coke.’
Baumbach, on the other hand, is much more disciplined and prefers salad as comfort food, much to Gerwig’s exasperation.
“The fact that your solace is salad says it all,” he joked. ‘He truly is the most disciplined and effortless person I know. And it’s so annoying.’
The couple, who recently moved to London as Gerwig prepares to direct Netflix’s The Chronicles of Narnia reboot, shared their perspectives on film, food and family while dining at The River Café.
He balances his personal and professional life with his two sons: Harold, five years old, and another son born in 2023, whose name has not been publicly revealed.
Partners in both life and art, Gerwig and Baumbach met on the set of Baumbach’s 2010 film Greenberg.
They married in 2022 and have become two of the most famous voices in Hollywood.

Partners in both life and art, Gerwig and Baumbach met on the set of Baumbach’s 2010 film Greenberg. They married in 2022 and have become two of the most famous voices in Hollywood.
Gerwig directed blockbusters like Barbie, Lady Bird and Little Women, while Baumbach is best known for Marriage Story and Frances Ha.
Food is essential to their lives on and off set.
Gerwig shared the importance of community in filmmaking: “I like to have dinners with the cast and crew before we start – big, long dinners.
‘I think one of the reasons I like making films is because of these communities that arise and there is a common purpose, and everything is something impossible.
“You’re all doing something outrageously vulnerable together, so let’s all eat, let’s all eat together.”
Reflecting on her film Barbie, which grossed more than £1.1bn at the box office, making it the highest-grossing film of 2023 and the highest-grossing film ever directed by a woman, Gerwig said: “Even in something like Barbie, like Barbie has (previously) Since Barbie has been around since 1959, the logo has gone through a few different versions.
‘The Barbie of my childhood is the big bubble letters… It’s something personal for me. If it’s not personal, what does it matter? Anyone could have done it.

The couple, who recently moved to London as Gerwig prepares to direct Netflix’s The Chronicles of Narnia reboot, shared their perspectives on film, food and family while dining at The River Café.
Already deep into Narnia, a project she has pushed for years, Gerwig told Time: ‘Narnia had been in the making for a long time; I had written a draft before setting foot on the Barbie set.
‘Knowing that I had laid the foundations for Narnia and that I wanted to return to it was probably something I prepared myself for psychologically.
“Because I know that the right thing, at least for me, is to continue making films. No matter what happens, good or bad, you have to move forward.
For Gerwig and Baumbach, their shared passions for film, food, and storytelling are at the core of their partnership.
As Baumbach said: “You get together to eat and talk about music and movies.”