Meryl Streep is Julia Child — First Picture!
Thu, 08 May 2008 at 10:16 pm
Here is first look of
Meryl Streep as
Julia Child from the upcoming biopic
Julie & Julia.
Here’s the movie’s plotline via Wiki: Frustrated temp secretary Julie Powell (
Amy Adams) embarks on a yearlong culinary quest to cook all 524 recipes in
Julia Child’s
Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She chronicles her trials and tribulations in a blog that catches on with the food crowd. The film also covers the years Julia Child and her husband Paul (
Stanley Tucci) spent in Paris during the 1940s and ’50s, when Paul was a foreign diplomat who was eventually investigated by Sen. Joseph McCarthy for alleged communist ties.
Julie & Julia is currently filming and is slated to be released in 2009. The film is based on Julie Powell’s memoir
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. Directing is
Nora Ephron, whose film credits include
Sleepless in Seattle,
You’ve Got Mail and
Bewitched.
Dave Annable (
Brothers & Sisters) and
Mary Lynn Rajskub (
24) also costar.
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