Natasha Gregson Wagner: ...that I would learn from my mom, Natalie Wood, long after her death

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🗓️ 11 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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As we approach Mother's Day, we want to share with you our conversation with actress, author and filmmaker Natasha Gregson Wagner. Natasha is the daughter of the late actress Natalie Wood and film producer Richard Gregson. She is the stepdaughter of actor Robert Wagner and the co-producer of the documentary called “Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind”. Natasha is also the author of the book, “More Than Love: An Intimate Portrait of My Mother, Natalie Wood.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. And we've wanted to talk with our guest on this episode, actress, author, and filmmaker Natasha Gregson Wagner for a very
0:22.1	long time. Natasha is the daughter of the late actress Natalie Wood and film producer Richard
0:27.1	Gregson, and she's also the stepdaughter of actor Robert Wagner and the co-producer of the recent
0:32.2	documentary that we loved called Natalie Wood, What Remains Behind. Natasha is also the author of the book, More Than Love, an intimate portrait of my mother,
0:42.4	Natalie Wood.
0:43.3	Natasha, thank you so very much for joining us.
0:46.1	Thank you so much for having me.
0:48.0	You write in the book that over the years, when someone would ask you for comment on your
0:53.5	mother's life, you usually declined.
0:56.5	So what happened? Why did you decide to write the book and then do the documentary about your mother?
1:03.0	That's a great question. Well, prior to becoming a mother myself, I think that I felt very protective of my family and also a little
1:16.1	unsafe in the world and not really a grown-up, even though I was by age standards, a grown-up.
1:25.5	Once I met my husband, Barry Watson, and we started a family and I gave
1:30.7	birth to my daughter, Clover, in 2012, I really started to feel much more gravity within myself.
1:39.3	And I began to feel like a woman and an adult.
1:49.4	And I even started to feel a bit like my mom's mother.
1:53.6	I turned 43, which was the age that she was when she died.
2:05.2	And a lot of the hard work that I had done in therapy, everything started to coalesce. And so I was working on a fragrance in her honor as sort of just, you know, like a creative outlet. And I was interviewed for the New York
2:13.1	Times, the style section. And it was the first time that I had spoken publicly about my mom in that
2:21.5	great detail. And when the article came out, it was on the cover of the Sunday style section.
2:29.6	Katie Rosman was the journalist. And I read the article. my heart was beating so fast thinking that I was
2:37.6	going to feel really small and really defensive and really out of control but the opposite happened to
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