SM: How difficult is it being a woman in the industry?
Juvonen: It’s like being upset about how old you are; you are what you are. Most of the time, I feel like the road I’m riding on has been paved. I’m grateful for the women who’ve paved the road. There are moments where you get into the “Men’s Club,” [but] usually it’s a few generations older than I am. I’ve seen it more than I wish I had. However, most of the time, to this day, my rooms are filled more with women than with men.

SM: Can you imagine doing anything else?e. I’m frustrated. This doesn’t work.” I have my dream about one day having
Juvonen: Yes, I can. When you have your bad days, you’re like, “I dona little store of my own. It would hold one-of-a kind things. Not antiques, but yummy oil paintings and portraits and little treasures that were people’s lives.

SM: Do you have an “I made it” moment?
Juvonen: I don’t because I still think I’m going to be busted as a fraud at any moment. In the beginning stages, people would ask, “What do you do?” Before we’d produced a movie, I didn’t know how to answer that because I felt like, “I’m not a producer. I haven’t produced anything.” We’d been at it for two and a half years and I thought, “What am I doing? Is this going to work?” The moment we finished our first film, “Never Been Kissed,” Drew and I looked at each other. It was 6 a.m.. We were on a pier in Chicago. Final wrap was called… That was the moment we thought, “Wow. We did it. Now we can really say we’re producers.”

Nancy Juvonen’s next project pairs Drew Barrymore with Hugh Grant in the romantic comedy, “Music & Lyrics By.”