Julia has been canceled at Max after two seasons. The Julia Child biographical series stars Sarah Lancashire as The French Chef star and David Hyde Pierce has her dutiful husband, Paul Child. Max canceled Our Flag Means Death, another of its original series, just the day before on January 9. “We are so honored to have partnered with Chris Keyser, Daniel Goldfarb and their masterful creative team and dynamic cast, led by Sarah Lancashire, as they cooked up Julia,” a Max spokesperson said in a statement, per Variety. “Thanks to their beautiful work over two seasons of this heartful, sensual, and inspiring show, we can forever celebrate the incredible legacy of Julia Child.” The eight-episode second season premiered in November 2023, with the Julia Season 2 finale coming out on December 21. Season 1 debuted on the streaming platform in March 2022 and was also comprised of eight episodes. The period dramedy followed Child as she,...
- 1/11/2024
- TV Insider
“Food is the most temperamental actor you can have on set,” admits Christine Tobin, the food stylist on the Max series “Julia,” in a new, three-minute, behind-the-scenes feature that Gold Derby is debuting exclusively. She explains, “We want to make sure that the food will present beautifully, but last.” That is indeed a priority on a show that is centered on legendarily delicious meals. Sarah Lancashire, who delivers a stunning turn as iconic cook Julia Child, describes Christine as “the invisible me,” continuing, “I look like I’m doing it all, but I’m doing very little.” Watch the exclusive video above.
The new footage offers an inside look into how the delectable food, which plays a prominent role on the series about the beginning of Child’s television series “The French Chef,” goes from kitchen to camera. Showrunner Chris Keyser says that the show functions as a “collaboration between the kitchen and the writing,...
The new footage offers an inside look into how the delectable food, which plays a prominent role on the series about the beginning of Child’s television series “The French Chef,” goes from kitchen to camera. Showrunner Chris Keyser says that the show functions as a “collaboration between the kitchen and the writing,...
- 11/20/2023
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
The Frasier reboot officially premiered on Paramount+ in October. The reboot was years in the making. While its premise is certainly interesting and aims to recapture the original magic of the series, it’s different from what the creators initially envisioned. When the Frasier reboot was first being discussed, the show was supposed to focus on Dr. Frasier Crane and Dr. Niles Crane. When David Hyde Pierce, the actor who played Niles, opted out of reprising his role, the team had to go in a new direction. So, what was the original premise?
The original ‘Frasier’ reboot would have focused on Frasier and Niles
The Fraiser reboot that fans are watching is not the reboot that the show’s creators originally intended. Long before the reboot made it to production, there was a storyline floated around that heavily relied on David Hyde Pierce.
Joe Cristalli, the reboot’s showrunner, spoke...
The original ‘Frasier’ reboot would have focused on Frasier and Niles
The Fraiser reboot that fans are watching is not the reboot that the show’s creators originally intended. Long before the reboot made it to production, there was a storyline floated around that heavily relied on David Hyde Pierce.
Joe Cristalli, the reboot’s showrunner, spoke...
- 11/14/2023
- by Andrea Francese
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Food is a universal theme in movies, and what's great about that is the wide variety of traditions, customs, and cultures that go into making foods from around the world so different and interesting. Food is strongly tied to family all over the map, whether it's big events like weddings or a Sunday dinner, or recipes handed down through the generations. Food can also be part of seduction or used in erotic games, and it can trace the arc of a romantic relationship. Food being prepared professionally, in restaurants, always makes for high drama and it's easy to understand why professional kitchens are such frequent settings for movies and TV shows. The tension can be unbearable, but there's also camaraderie amongst the staff, and interesting bonds to be explored with the customers and (gulp) the critics.
Some common themes in food movies are the high culture/low culture dichotomy --...
Some common themes in food movies are the high culture/low culture dichotomy --...
- 12/15/2022
- by Fiona Underhill
- Slash Film
Julia Child has been a part of John Dunn’s life for as long as he can remember. As a child, he watched her public TV cooking program, “The French Chef,” so often that she came to mean much more to him than just someone smiling encouragingly at him from inside the small screen. “She was one of those people that (made such an impact on me) — kind of like the-duckling-imprints-on-their-mom idea, where you’re at an impressionable age when you’re watching something,” he told TheWrap. “She was a very iconic person in my upbringing and in my DNA, almost, of growing up in America at a certain age.”
So to find himself years later designing the costumes for “Julia,” HBO Max’s series about the chef who brought French cooking to the American masses, seemed almost fated. “It was great, great fun to go in and do a...
So to find himself years later designing the costumes for “Julia,” HBO Max’s series about the chef who brought French cooking to the American masses, seemed almost fated. “It was great, great fun to go in and do a...
- 6/15/2022
- by Missy Schwartz
- The Wrap
They almost certainly won’t win. They aren’t even on too many Emmys short lists to be nominated. But there are two shows eligible for Outstanding Comedy Series this year that — at least in this humble TV watcher’s opinion — really do deserve some sort of prize.
A James Beard Award for one of them, perhaps? And maybe the Order of Lenin for the other?
The first is “Julia,” HBO Max’s delicious comedy-drama following the life and career of cooking icon Julia Child, the grand dame of PBS who for 10 years, from 1963 to 1973, taught America how to sauté. Child has been played by some heavyweights in the past — Meryl Streep in 2009’s “Julia and Julia” and, of course, Dan Aykroyd in his famous 1978 “SNL” skit — but never before with the heart and soul, not to mention vocal alacrity, that veteran English actress Sarah Lancashire brings to the role.
A James Beard Award for one of them, perhaps? And maybe the Order of Lenin for the other?
The first is “Julia,” HBO Max’s delicious comedy-drama following the life and career of cooking icon Julia Child, the grand dame of PBS who for 10 years, from 1963 to 1973, taught America how to sauté. Child has been played by some heavyweights in the past — Meryl Streep in 2009’s “Julia and Julia” and, of course, Dan Aykroyd in his famous 1978 “SNL” skit — but never before with the heart and soul, not to mention vocal alacrity, that veteran English actress Sarah Lancashire brings to the role.
- 6/15/2022
- by Benjamin Svetkey
- The Wrap
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With food programming now a staple of both TV and TikTok, it’s no surprise that viewers still have healthy appetites for stories about Julia Child, a pioneer in the cooking genre.
Back in 2009, Julie & Julia featured Meryl Streep’s Oscar-nominated portrayal of the chef as she worked on her seminal 1961 cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Premiering in March 2022, just after the launch of Food Network’s competition series The Julia Child Challenge, the first season of HBO Max’s Julia essentially picks up where Nora Ephron’s film left off.
Starring Sarah Lancashire in the title role and David Hyde Pierce as husband Paul Child, Julia focuses on the genesis of her TV series The French Chef amid the cookbook’s popularity. Her groundbreaking show began airing weekly in February 1963 and ran for 10 seasons, earning Child a Peabody Award in...
With food programming now a staple of both TV and TikTok, it’s no surprise that viewers still have healthy appetites for stories about Julia Child, a pioneer in the cooking genre.
Back in 2009, Julie & Julia featured Meryl Streep’s Oscar-nominated portrayal of the chef as she worked on her seminal 1961 cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Premiering in March 2022, just after the launch of Food Network’s competition series The Julia Child Challenge, the first season of HBO Max’s Julia essentially picks up where Nora Ephron’s film left off.
Starring Sarah Lancashire in the title role and David Hyde Pierce as husband Paul Child, Julia focuses on the genesis of her TV series The French Chef amid the cookbook’s popularity. Her groundbreaking show began airing weekly in February 1963 and ran for 10 seasons, earning Child a Peabody Award in...
- 6/14/2022
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
From the very start, “Julia” producer Chris Keyser decided there wouldn’t be any shortcuts when it came to creating the food scenes for HBO Max’s origin story of the famous TV chef. It had to taste good and look even better to honor the spirit of Julia Child.
Production designer Patrizia von Brandenstein and food stylist Christine Tobin threw themselves into making sure all the ingredients were perfectly combined, and the result was a delicious-tasting menu of scenes spotlighting the mouth-watering dishes and the Childs’ enjoyment of eating. HBO Max’s “Julia” has been renewed for a second season, and von Brandenstein recently returned from a scouting trip
to France.
“It was just wonderful,” says von Brandenstein. “I hope we can carry that torch into our next adventure. The food is still central, and there’s no place better to start than in France.”
An Oscar-winner for “Amadeus,...
Production designer Patrizia von Brandenstein and food stylist Christine Tobin threw themselves into making sure all the ingredients were perfectly combined, and the result was a delicious-tasting menu of scenes spotlighting the mouth-watering dishes and the Childs’ enjoyment of eating. HBO Max’s “Julia” has been renewed for a second season, and von Brandenstein recently returned from a scouting trip
to France.
“It was just wonderful,” says von Brandenstein. “I hope we can carry that torch into our next adventure. The food is still central, and there’s no place better to start than in France.”
An Oscar-winner for “Amadeus,...
- 6/11/2022
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
There’s something in the recipe for Julia, HBO Max’s series about Julia Child and her transformative cooking show, that viewers are savoring like a warm meal straight from the kitchen. “People are having a very specific kind of reaction to it,” says David Hyde Pierce, who stars as Julia’s husband, Paul Child. “[They] feel embraced and comforted by it.” The role is both supportive but nuanced as Paul pours his all into giving Julia the chance to shine. Here, Pierce discusses portraying the man behind the star chef, played by Sarah Lancashire, the show’s window into his and Julia’s relationship, and where things stand right now with the Frasier reboot.
Deadline: How familiar were you with Paul and Julia Child before this project?
David Hyde Pierce: I was probably familiar with Julia the way most people who had heard of her work knew about her.
Deadline: How familiar were you with Paul and Julia Child before this project?
David Hyde Pierce: I was probably familiar with Julia the way most people who had heard of her work knew about her.
- 6/9/2022
- by Jessica Derschowitz
- Deadline Film + TV
“Wow, this is a bold lady for 1961!,” thought “Julia” production designer Patrizia von Brandenstein when she saw the vibrant colors culinary icon Julia Child chose for her home kitchen. She was tasked with recreating Julia and husband Paul Child’s Cambridge, Ma house for the HBO Max series, whose first season shows the beloved cook developing and shooting the early episodes of her series “The French Chef.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
To bring Julia’s kitchen to life, von Brandenstein drew on papers and documents that the Childs gifted to Harvard’s Schlesinger Library. “They left their papers including their plans for the kitchen… the original renovation of the house, photographs, and there are detailed descriptions,” notes the production designer of what resources she had to guide her work. Those materials gave her a glimpse into Julia’s style. She observes that the star cook “believed in strong...
To bring Julia’s kitchen to life, von Brandenstein drew on papers and documents that the Childs gifted to Harvard’s Schlesinger Library. “They left their papers including their plans for the kitchen… the original renovation of the house, photographs, and there are detailed descriptions,” notes the production designer of what resources she had to guide her work. Those materials gave her a glimpse into Julia’s style. She observes that the star cook “believed in strong...
- 5/31/2022
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
“One of the ways my mother would keep me busy was put me in front of Julia,” recalls costume designer John Dunn about his early memories of watching Julia Child on television at a young age. The six-time Emmy nominee had fond memories of the “fascinating character” to draw on when be started work on the HBO Max series “Julia,” which in its first season focuses on how the iconic TV personality started her famous show “The French Chef.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.
“Julia” is set in the early 1960s, a period Dunn describes as “near and dear” to him. The acclaimed designer is no stranger to period pieces, either, since he earned all six of those Emmy bids for his work on “Mad Men” and “Boardwalk Empire.” He notes that this show opened up for him “a new subculture” of “Cambridge, Boston, and the Wgbh environment,” though,...
“Julia” is set in the early 1960s, a period Dunn describes as “near and dear” to him. The acclaimed designer is no stranger to period pieces, either, since he earned all six of those Emmy bids for his work on “Mad Men” and “Boardwalk Empire.” He notes that this show opened up for him “a new subculture” of “Cambridge, Boston, and the Wgbh environment,” though,...
- 5/29/2022
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
Jabari Banks remembers the exact date that his favorite actor, Chadwick Boseman, passed away. It was August 28, 2020, and Banks was working at a factory in Temecula, Calif., doing a temp job wrapping gutters. Yes, that is a job that Banks had just a year before getting his big break as the star of Peacock’s “Bel-Air.”
But back to the factory. “My mom got me a temp job, so I flew from Philly to Temecula where they paid for our housing, our transportation, our food and everything. Super sketchy.” He was staying in the hotel when he got the news of Boseman’s death.
“He’s such an inspiration to me,” Banks said. “That day I was like, I want to continue what he was doing for our community. I want to be an impact on the youth as like he was for me, and for so many people around me.
But back to the factory. “My mom got me a temp job, so I flew from Philly to Temecula where they paid for our housing, our transportation, our food and everything. Super sketchy.” He was staying in the hotel when he got the news of Boseman’s death.
“He’s such an inspiration to me,” Banks said. “That day I was like, I want to continue what he was doing for our community. I want to be an impact on the youth as like he was for me, and for so many people around me.
- 5/21/2022
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
“It’s been a lifelong dream of mine to do something about food,” shares Daniel Goldfarb, the creator and writer of HBO Max’s “Julia.” Although he did not always have a dramatization of Julia Child‘s life in mind, the culinary arts have always been a part of his life, and the television icon and host of the legendary show “The French Chef” seemed a perfect fit. For the series, Goldfarb teamed up with showrunner Christopher Keyser, who describes “Julia” as an exploration of the “evolving, wonderful marriage” between Child and her husband Paul. Watch our exclusive video interview above.
To launch a new series about Child, Goldfarb and Keyser had to cast their Julia, and they both immediately thought of Sarah Lancashire. “We’re both just huge fans of her work,” Goldfarb says about why they thought of the BAFTA Award-winning actress, adding that they “think she’s...
To launch a new series about Child, Goldfarb and Keyser had to cast their Julia, and they both immediately thought of Sarah Lancashire. “We’re both just huge fans of her work,” Goldfarb says about why they thought of the BAFTA Award-winning actress, adding that they “think she’s...
- 4/29/2022
- by David Buchanan
- Gold Derby
David Hyde Pierce has been earning plenty of praise for his co-starring role in the new HBO Max drama Julia, based on the life of renowned chef, author, and television personality Julia Child. Pierce plays Paul Child, who — while not as famous as his wife — lived a life that was every bit as […]
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- 4/20/2022
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
In the HBO Max series “Julia,” celebrity chef Julia Child (Sarah Lancashire) has many allies in her quest to bring French cooking to public television. Chief among them are her loving husband Paul (David Hyde Pierce) and her sharp-tongued best friend Avis DeVoto (Bebe Neuwirth). But while the two are deeply loyal towards Julia, any interaction they have with one another is prone to end in argument; in their very first scene, when Avis catches Paul in a white lie about watching Julia’s show earlier that day, Neuwirth delivers her line “She didn’t tell the fucking sole meunière story, Paul” with positively acidic contempt.
For people who watched NBC sitcoms in the ‘90s, these scenes bring a rush of nostalgia. On “Frasier,” the popular spin-off of the iconic sitcom “Cheers,” Pierce rose to fame as Niles, the snobbish brother of the title character. Neuwirth, meanwhile reprised her Emmy-winning “Cheers” role as Lillith,...
For people who watched NBC sitcoms in the ‘90s, these scenes bring a rush of nostalgia. On “Frasier,” the popular spin-off of the iconic sitcom “Cheers,” Pierce rose to fame as Niles, the snobbish brother of the title character. Neuwirth, meanwhile reprised her Emmy-winning “Cheers” role as Lillith,...
- 4/5/2022
- by Wilson Chapman
- Variety Film + TV
The first thing you need to do whilst watching HBO Max’s “Julia” is to get all other versions of Julia Child out of your head. That proves easier than might be expected, given such enduring depictions as Meryl Streep’s lauded turn in Nora Ephron’s “Julie and Julia” (2009) or, most cartoonishly, Dan Aykroyd’s “Saturday Night Live” performance of Child as a careening agent of chaos who constantly bleeds out like a geyser. In its early offings, “Julia” acts as a deliberate counterpoint to those larger-than-life portrayals, bringing Julia back down to earth as a flesh and blood human woman, played with empathetic precision by Sarah Lancashire. She’s still the life of the party, but she’s also prone to the adrenaline crash after the food’s gone and the guests leave.
This isn’t to say that “Julia” is so grim. In fact, it’s very...
This isn’t to say that “Julia” is so grim. In fact, it’s very...
- 3/30/2022
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
Julia Child is having quite the resurgence this year. HBO Max’s new limited series, “Julia,” is the third program aimed at the legendary American-born chef who brought French cuisine to the masses, joining Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s documentary released last year and Food Network’s “Julia Child Challenge.” It’s not clear exactly why Child is capturing audiences’ interests at the moment — perhaps it’s fueled, in part, by us spending two years in our homes realizing we can’t cook. But either way, it’s a great way to appreciate the majesty of food, especially when it looks so good on-screen.
Created by “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” producer Daniel Goldfarb, “Julia” is a light and charming examination of Child’s rise to fame. We meet Julia (British actress Sarah Lancashire) at a crossroads with her husband, Paul (David Hyde Pierce). Despite their deep love for each other,...
Created by “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” producer Daniel Goldfarb, “Julia” is a light and charming examination of Child’s rise to fame. We meet Julia (British actress Sarah Lancashire) at a crossroads with her husband, Paul (David Hyde Pierce). Despite their deep love for each other,...
- 3/30/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Julia Child in Cheese & Wine Party. Photograph by Paul Child. © Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
Julia Child is a name nearly everyone recognizes, if for nothing else than she has been so often affectionately parodied as the smiling middle-age woman with the high-pitched voice fearlessly wielding a cleaver on a TV cooking show, and carrying on no matter what happens in her live-tv show. But the late Julia Child was much more, a transformative figure in how American women regarded cooking, the woman who launched a thousand cooking shows (at least!), a bestselling author, a ground-breaker against ageism and sexism, and someone who led a remarkable life by any measure.
Julia is co-directors Julia Cohen’s and Betsy West’s affectionate, food-filled documentary about this towering figure (literally and figuratively) in American cooking, a documentary that makes a convincing case that Julia Child changed...
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics.
Julia Child is a name nearly everyone recognizes, if for nothing else than she has been so often affectionately parodied as the smiling middle-age woman with the high-pitched voice fearlessly wielding a cleaver on a TV cooking show, and carrying on no matter what happens in her live-tv show. But the late Julia Child was much more, a transformative figure in how American women regarded cooking, the woman who launched a thousand cooking shows (at least!), a bestselling author, a ground-breaker against ageism and sexism, and someone who led a remarkable life by any measure.
Julia is co-directors Julia Cohen’s and Betsy West’s affectionate, food-filled documentary about this towering figure (literally and figuratively) in American cooking, a documentary that makes a convincing case that Julia Child changed...
- 11/19/2021
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Booked to talk Mastering the Art of French Cooking on public access channel Wgbh-tv, Julia Child took it upon herself to call the station and request a hotplate for demonstration purposes. She wanted to show a recipe in action to those watching rather than make mere conversation, and the extra effort turned this segment into a sensation—earning enough calls and letters to offer her a pilot. This cookbook that took 12 years to write via correspondence with co-authors Simone “Simca” Beck and Louisette Bertholle had been rejected, resuscitated, thrown on tour, and now transformed into a television show because of her unwavering perseverance and initiative. The upper-class daughter of a staunch California Republican was suddenly reborn as a pop-culture, liberal artist icon at age 52.
The details that expound on the “How” of that evolution are even more complex and wild than mere happenstance, though, so it’s only right that...
The details that expound on the “How” of that evolution are even more complex and wild than mere happenstance, though, so it’s only right that...
- 9/13/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The world’s fascination with Julia Child — arguably the world’s first celebrity chef, and certainly the first to make a career out of cooking up both an assortment of beloved television shows and a bestselling lineup of books — hasn’t abated much since Child passed away in 2004. By 2009, Meryl Streep was playing her on-screen in Nora Ephron’s “Julie & Julia,” which threaded Child’s later years alongside the fraught young adulthood of New Yorker Julie Powell. Later this year, HBO Max will debut a full-scale miniseries about the Francophile, with British actress Sarah Lancashire playing Child. Before that series, however, there’s yet another entry — also, like the HBO Max series, entitled “Julia” — , who excel at putting the life stories of remarkable women on the big screen (see: their Oscar nominee “Rbg”).
So, is there enough meat on the bone to engender so much material on just one woman?...
So, is there enough meat on the bone to engender so much material on just one woman?...
- 9/3/2021
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Julia Child saved America from the Jell-o salad, yes, but the documentary “Julia” reminds us that that’s but one of her many accomplishments. From “Rbg” directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West, it’s a film that falls squarely into what we might start calling the CNN Films house style — a portrait of a beloved figure that reminds you why that figure is beloved.
Still, as personality-based docs go, it’s one that offers both a comprehensive examination of one person’s accomplishments and importance as well as some moments of reflection about its subjects human frailties and shortcomings.
Cohen and West unpack the legend :Julia McWilliams was born to a wealthy family in Pasadena, Calif., and she escaped her father’s efforts to marry her off by enlisting during WWII, where she did office work for the Oss. Assignments to Sri Lanka and China brought her close to cartographer Paul Child,...
Still, as personality-based docs go, it’s one that offers both a comprehensive examination of one person’s accomplishments and importance as well as some moments of reflection about its subjects human frailties and shortcomings.
Cohen and West unpack the legend :Julia McWilliams was born to a wealthy family in Pasadena, Calif., and she escaped her father’s efforts to marry her off by enlisting during WWII, where she did office work for the Oss. Assignments to Sri Lanka and China brought her close to cartographer Paul Child,...
- 9/3/2021
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Sarah Lancashire (Happy Valley) leads the cast of Julia, HBO Max’s drama pilot about the famous chef, trailblazing cookbook author and TV personality, from Chris Keyser and Lionsgate Television.
Tom Hollander, Brittany Bradford (Broadway productions Bernhardt/Hamlet and Mac Beth), Fran Kranz, Fiona Glascott (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald), Bebe Neuwirth (Madam Secretary) also have been cast as series regulars in the pilot, with Isabella Rossellini (Silent Retreat) and Jefferson Mays (I Am the Night) guest starring.
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Written by Daniel Goldfarb (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and directed by Charles McDougall...
Tom Hollander, Brittany Bradford (Broadway productions Bernhardt/Hamlet and Mac Beth), Fran Kranz, Fiona Glascott (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald), Bebe Neuwirth (Madam Secretary) also have been cast as series regulars in the pilot, with Isabella Rossellini (Silent Retreat) and Jefferson Mays (I Am the Night) guest starring.
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Written by Daniel Goldfarb (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and directed by Charles McDougall...
- 3/12/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
HBO Max is officially moving forward with a pilot order for a series inspired by the life of Julia Child, Variety has learned.
Titled “Julia,” the one-hour show will explore her life and her show “The French Chef,” which essentially invented food television. Through Child, the show is said to explore an evolving time in American history – the emergence of a new social institution called public television, feminism and the women’s movement, the nature of celebrity, and America’s cultural growth.
The cast includes: Sarah Lancashire as Julia Child; Tom Hollander as Paul Child, Julia’s husband; Brittany Bradford as Alice, Associate Producer of the show “I’ve Been Reading” who champions Julia after her appearance; Fran Kranz as Russ, producer on the show “I’ve Been Reading” who begrudgingly joins Julia’s cooking show; Fiona Glascottas Judith, the editor with a knack for pulling manuscripts out of the...
Titled “Julia,” the one-hour show will explore her life and her show “The French Chef,” which essentially invented food television. Through Child, the show is said to explore an evolving time in American history – the emergence of a new social institution called public television, feminism and the women’s movement, the nature of celebrity, and America’s cultural growth.
The cast includes: Sarah Lancashire as Julia Child; Tom Hollander as Paul Child, Julia’s husband; Brittany Bradford as Alice, Associate Producer of the show “I’ve Been Reading” who champions Julia after her appearance; Fran Kranz as Russ, producer on the show “I’ve Been Reading” who begrudgingly joins Julia’s cooking show; Fiona Glascottas Judith, the editor with a knack for pulling manuscripts out of the...
- 3/12/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Surprisingly, Julia Child could hardly boil an egg when she moved with her new husband, diplomat Paul Child, to France in 1948. There she learned how to cook — and Paul developed his own talent, photographing his wife in beautiful black-and-white images. Now these pictures have been collected in a book, France Is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child, by Alex Prud’homme (Paul’s great-nephew) and Katie Pratt (whose parents were pals of Paul and Julia’s). They’re also on exhibit at the Napa Valley Museum in Yountville, CA, through May 20. Pasadena, CA-born Julia’s time in France "was a defining moment in her life," Prud’homme exclusively told Closer Weekly in a new interview. In 1961, she co-wrote Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and the rest is culinary history. On a more private level, the photos express Paul’s amour for Julia."She was his muse,...
- 3/24/2018
- by Closer Staff
- Closer Weekly
First, it was presidents, poets and Patty Hearst. Now, Julia Child is getting the Drunk History treatment in a new episode aptly titled “Food.” And Et has an exclusive first look at Child’s segment, narrated by Lyric Lewis and starring Michaela Watkins (Hulu’s Casual) and Joe Lo Truglio (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), which will air Tuesday, Nov. 22 at 10:30 p.m. Et on Comedy Central.
While Child is a world-famous chef and TV personality known for bringing French cuisine to the American public, creator Derek Waters was most fascinated with her brief, little-known history working for the Office of Strategic Services, which later became known as the Central Intelligence Agency. “That story jumped out at me,” Waters tells Et by phone. “I thought, ‘Oh, I genuinely want to learn what she actually did.’”
Given that Meryl Streep most famously portrayed Child in the 2009 Nora Ephron film Julie & Julia, Et had to know if the A-list star was...
While Child is a world-famous chef and TV personality known for bringing French cuisine to the American public, creator Derek Waters was most fascinated with her brief, little-known history working for the Office of Strategic Services, which later became known as the Central Intelligence Agency. “That story jumped out at me,” Waters tells Et by phone. “I thought, ‘Oh, I genuinely want to learn what she actually did.’”
Given that Meryl Streep most famously portrayed Child in the 2009 Nora Ephron film Julie & Julia, Et had to know if the A-list star was...
- 11/22/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
Before Mastering the Art of French Cooking and becoming one of the most recognizable American television personalities, 30-year-old Julia McWilliams joined “Wild Bill” Donovan and his Office of Strategic Services (Oss) in the Far East during World War II, where she met her mentor and future husband, Paul Child. In A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the Oss (Simon & Schuster), Jennet Conant employs newly unclassified documents and intimate correspondence between Julia and Paul to track their romance and Oss compatriots, most notably Jane Foster, as they endured the McCarthy Red spy hunt in the 1950s. Below, Conant introduces the Childs as they are transferred from their beloved Paris to “the Golden Ghetto of the Rhine.” Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 4/25/2011
- Vanity Fair
I've wanted to read this book for a while, and not just because of Julie and Julia, although that helped. When the movie came out, I heard an interview with Julia Child on NPR, and she was just delightful. Clever, funny, and delightful. I wasn't ever planning on reading Julie & Julia, because the Julie portion annoys me, but I wanted to know more about Julia Child. She just sounded like someone that I would have enjoyed spending time with. We liked the same things: good food and good wine. And lots of them.
My husband actually met Julia Child once, not long before she died. He was in culinary school in New York. She was visiting, and happened to drop in while he was up to his elbows in leeks. She stood right beside him, and her exact words were: "Keep soldiering on!" There isn't anyone who has ever met...
My husband actually met Julia Child once, not long before she died. He was in culinary school in New York. She was visiting, and happened to drop in while he was up to his elbows in leeks. She stood right beside him, and her exact words were: "Keep soldiering on!" There isn't anyone who has ever met...
- 1/19/2011
- by Tamatha Uhmelmahaye
"An Education" led the 2010 BAFTA film awards. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced its longlist and the coming-of-age drama scored 17 mentions including best film, director, and actress for Carey Mulligan.
Not too far behind was Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" with 15 mentions and Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" scored 12. Meanwhile, James Cameron's "Avatar" and Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones" received 11 mentions apiece.
This longlist will be cut down to a shortlist from 15 mentions per category (except Best Animated Film) to 5. They will be announced January 21st. Then, the winners will be crowned one month later on Feb. 21st.
Here's the full BAFTA longlist:
Best Film
"Avatar"
"District 9"
"An Education"
"Gran Torino"
"The Hurt Locker"
"Inglourious Basterds"
"Invictus"
"Moon"
"Precious"
"The Road"
"A Serious Man"
"A Single Man"
"Star Trek"
"Up"
"Up in the Air"
Adapted Screenplay
"Crazy Heart"
"The Damned United"
"District 9...
Not too far behind was Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" with 15 mentions and Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" scored 12. Meanwhile, James Cameron's "Avatar" and Peter Jackson's "The Lovely Bones" received 11 mentions apiece.
This longlist will be cut down to a shortlist from 15 mentions per category (except Best Animated Film) to 5. They will be announced January 21st. Then, the winners will be crowned one month later on Feb. 21st.
Here's the full BAFTA longlist:
Best Film
"Avatar"
"District 9"
"An Education"
"Gran Torino"
"The Hurt Locker"
"Inglourious Basterds"
"Invictus"
"Moon"
"Precious"
"The Road"
"A Serious Man"
"A Single Man"
"Star Trek"
"Up"
"Up in the Air"
Adapted Screenplay
"Crazy Heart"
"The Damned United"
"District 9...
- 1/7/2010
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Nora Ephron had already signed on to write and direct the movie that combined the story of Julia Child's start in the cooking profession with the emotional journey of blogger Julie Powell, when she ran into Meryl Streep at a Shakespeare in the Park performance. Ephron told Streep what she was working on, and Streep offered her best Julia Child impression: "Bon appétit!" Ephron knew her search was over. After reading the script, Streep called Ephron. "I thought it was absolutely beautiful," Streep recalls. "It made me cry, the idea that what you put in front of your family, that love, those connections between people, are the real important things." "Both stories were going to be about marriage and food, two things that go together in most people's lives," says Ephron. "When you're in the romantic comedy business, the movie ends when people say, 'Will you marry me?'...
- 12/8/2009
- backstage.com
Nora Ephron made her name as a screenwriter and director of smart, romantic comedies; yet her last two films (Lucky Numbers and Bewitched) were box office disasters.
Julie & Julia is Ephron’s return to form – and partly down to the stellar performances courtesy of Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci; who imbue their (real life) characters with an infectious warmth and gentle humour.
As films go, its source material(s) is thoroughly post-modern: being based on a blog-turned-book inspired by a famous cookery book – and a memoir. From these key ingredients the director concocts and serves up a delightful film.
It hops between two narratives with an historic link: the writing of a cookery cook. Not just any cook book! A groundbreaking work entitled Mastering the Art of French Cooking by American icon Julia Child (along with French counterparts Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholie).
In post-9/11 New York, Julie Powell (Amy Adams...
Julie & Julia is Ephron’s return to form – and partly down to the stellar performances courtesy of Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci; who imbue their (real life) characters with an infectious warmth and gentle humour.
As films go, its source material(s) is thoroughly post-modern: being based on a blog-turned-book inspired by a famous cookery book – and a memoir. From these key ingredients the director concocts and serves up a delightful film.
It hops between two narratives with an historic link: the writing of a cookery cook. Not just any cook book! A groundbreaking work entitled Mastering the Art of French Cooking by American icon Julia Child (along with French counterparts Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholie).
In post-9/11 New York, Julie Powell (Amy Adams...
- 9/7/2009
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Nora Ephron made her name as a screenwriter and director of smart, romantic comedies; yet her last two films (Lucky Numbers and Bewitched) were box office disasters.
Julie & Julia is Ephron’s return to form – and partly down to the stellar performances courtesy of Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci; who imbue their (real life) characters with an infectious warmth and gentle humour.
As films go, its source material(s) is thoroughly post-modern: being based on a blog-turned-book inspired by a famous cookery book – and a memoir. From these key ingredients the director concocts and serves up a delightful film.
It hops between two narratives with an historic link: the writing of a cookery cook. Not just any cook book! A groundbreaking work entitled Mastering the Art of French Cooking by American icon Julia Child (along with French counterparts Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholie).
In post-9/11 New York, Julie Powell (Amy Adams...
Julie & Julia is Ephron’s return to form – and partly down to the stellar performances courtesy of Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci; who imbue their (real life) characters with an infectious warmth and gentle humour.
As films go, its source material(s) is thoroughly post-modern: being based on a blog-turned-book inspired by a famous cookery book – and a memoir. From these key ingredients the director concocts and serves up a delightful film.
It hops between two narratives with an historic link: the writing of a cookery cook. Not just any cook book! A groundbreaking work entitled Mastering the Art of French Cooking by American icon Julia Child (along with French counterparts Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholie).
In post-9/11 New York, Julie Powell (Amy Adams...
- 9/7/2009
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
Julie & Julia
Directed by: Nora Ephron
Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina
Running Time: 1 hr 50 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: August 7, 2009
Plot: Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia tells the story of how cooking star Julia Child (Streep) got started, and also how Julie (Adams) decided to cook and blog through Child’s entire cookbook in one year.
Who’s It For? Foodies will be pleased, and this is one of those rare, feel-good (in general) movies where you just keep thinking, “nice.”
Expectations: I like my history in fiction form, plus the added twist of getting another drama thrown in there with one of my favorites (Amy Adams) I was looking forward to this one.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Meryl Streep as Julia Child: This Streep lady might just have an acting career ahead of her. Once again, she loses herself in the role. She...
Directed by: Nora Ephron
Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina
Running Time: 1 hr 50 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: August 7, 2009
Plot: Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia tells the story of how cooking star Julia Child (Streep) got started, and also how Julie (Adams) decided to cook and blog through Child’s entire cookbook in one year.
Who’s It For? Foodies will be pleased, and this is one of those rare, feel-good (in general) movies where you just keep thinking, “nice.”
Expectations: I like my history in fiction form, plus the added twist of getting another drama thrown in there with one of my favorites (Amy Adams) I was looking forward to this one.
Scorecard (0-10)
Actors:
Meryl Streep as Julia Child: This Streep lady might just have an acting career ahead of her. Once again, she loses herself in the role. She...
- 8/7/2009
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
Meryl Streep is Julia Child — in a movie that needs more of her.
Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia"
Photo: Sony Pictures
"Julie & Julia" is one-half of a great biopic. In portraying Julia Child — the effervescent author and chef whose four decades of TV cooking shows made her an intimate presence in millions of American homes — Meryl Streep gives a performance that's virtually an act of reincarnation. One of the film's most striking moments is a scene in which Julia and her husband Paul (Stanley Tucci) are having dinner in a Paris restaurant, and Paul asks his wife what it is she most likes to do. Happily chewing a forkful of food, Julia tosses her head and blurts out, "Eat!" That's all. But Streep's careful blending of gestures and expressions — breezy, ebullient, half-dotty — is so precisely Julian that a smile of wonderment is impossible to suppress.
Streep's accomplishment is remarkable because...
Meryl Streep in "Julie & Julia"
Photo: Sony Pictures
"Julie & Julia" is one-half of a great biopic. In portraying Julia Child — the effervescent author and chef whose four decades of TV cooking shows made her an intimate presence in millions of American homes — Meryl Streep gives a performance that's virtually an act of reincarnation. One of the film's most striking moments is a scene in which Julia and her husband Paul (Stanley Tucci) are having dinner in a Paris restaurant, and Paul asks his wife what it is she most likes to do. Happily chewing a forkful of food, Julia tosses her head and blurts out, "Eat!" That's all. But Streep's careful blending of gestures and expressions — breezy, ebullient, half-dotty — is so precisely Julian that a smile of wonderment is impossible to suppress.
Streep's accomplishment is remarkable because...
- 8/7/2009
- MTV Movie News
524 recipes. 365 days. 123 minutes. A 3 out of 5 star movie. Those are just some of the numbers that pertain to ‘Julie & Julia,’ Nora Ephron’s biopic/dramedy that has way of entertaining in fits and starts.
Presented in back-and-forth fashion, the film tells two true stories. One pertains to Julia Child, played by Meryl Streep, and her husband, Paul, played by Stanley Tucci. Paul works for the Us embassy, and, as soon as the couple arrives in Paris, he and his wife take to the culture, particularly the food. It’s the ’40s and ’50s, and Julia has yet to become the famed chef. This half of the film centers on her working on her first book, an encyclopedia-sized book of recipes that would eventually become Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Intercut with this is the story of Julie Powell, played by Amy Adams. Julie is a frustrated secretary living in 2002 New York City.
Presented in back-and-forth fashion, the film tells two true stories. One pertains to Julia Child, played by Meryl Streep, and her husband, Paul, played by Stanley Tucci. Paul works for the Us embassy, and, as soon as the couple arrives in Paris, he and his wife take to the culture, particularly the food. It’s the ’40s and ’50s, and Julia has yet to become the famed chef. This half of the film centers on her working on her first book, an encyclopedia-sized book of recipes that would eventually become Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Intercut with this is the story of Julie Powell, played by Amy Adams. Julie is a frustrated secretary living in 2002 New York City.
- 8/7/2009
- by Kirk
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Well, the moment you've been waiting for has finally arrived. G.I. Joe is out! But -- uh oh -- you also might want to get laid this Friday. Question: do you go with the boys to see G.I. Joe, or do you call up your sweetheart and let her pick the flick? If you choose the latter, you -- along with every other pussywhipped American male -- will be seeing Julie & Julia this weekend. You should be for this, and I'll tell you why. You should also be wondering what should you know in order to effectively discuss this movie over that wine you bought because you thought the label was cool (Educated Guess, anyone?), but can't actually discern its crappy quality with your underdeveloped pallete? Look no further. We've got you covered. Julia Child 101 Brought French cuisine and techniques to the American mainstream pallete Her iconic TV Show was parodied on SNL by Dan...
- 8/7/2009
- by Bethany Perryman
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Just like with famous chef Julia Child’s recipes, this film loves to smother itself up with butter, but just the right amount to make it tasty and satisfying.
If I made food like she did I'd squeal with delight too.
Now, I’m not saying that this film is in any way, shape or form edible, but once you see those delectable recipes that Julie Powell and Julia Child cook up on screen you’ll want to eat it up. Aside from that, the film has a purely balanced selection of comedy and drama as you teeter back and forth between Julie’s life in New York as she tries to finish up the recipes within the span of a year (and blogging it up) to Julia’s new life in Paris back in her prime as she finds a new passion in the kitchen. Despite the huge gap...
If I made food like she did I'd squeal with delight too.
Now, I’m not saying that this film is in any way, shape or form edible, but once you see those delectable recipes that Julie Powell and Julia Child cook up on screen you’ll want to eat it up. Aside from that, the film has a purely balanced selection of comedy and drama as you teeter back and forth between Julie’s life in New York as she tries to finish up the recipes within the span of a year (and blogging it up) to Julia’s new life in Paris back in her prime as she finds a new passion in the kitchen. Despite the huge gap...
- 8/7/2009
- by Melissa Molina
- Atomic Popcorn
Veteran actress Meryl Streep had no problem playing Stanley Tucci's wife in new movie Julie & Julia because the old friends have been arguing "like married people" for years.
The Devil Wears Prada star portrays 1960s culinary queen Julia Child in the biopic, with Tucci as her spouse Paul Child.
The pair meet up for frequent social gatherings and their annual game of Christmas charades, where they are constantly pitted against one another.
Streep, who has been married to sculptor Don Gummer for 31 years, admits their deep friendship and her admiration for his film work helped her to slip into the role as Tucci's on-screen wife with ease.
She tells WENN, "Stanley and I are always on opposite sides in a very famous charades game during Christmas. We've been at each other's throats like married people for a long time, many years and we knew each other in that way.
"I've been in love with him from a far anyway with the totality of the man from Big Night to his directing work, in every way. It wasn't a tough job imagining being in love with him."
And the Oscar winner reveals Tucci is a wonder in the kitchen: "I once invited him over for dinner (to bond) with (his wife) Kate and I decided I'd make blanket de foie and it was not quite done when they arrived and so Stanley came in and completely took over the kitchen. We didn't eat until 11pm!"...
The Devil Wears Prada star portrays 1960s culinary queen Julia Child in the biopic, with Tucci as her spouse Paul Child.
The pair meet up for frequent social gatherings and their annual game of Christmas charades, where they are constantly pitted against one another.
Streep, who has been married to sculptor Don Gummer for 31 years, admits their deep friendship and her admiration for his film work helped her to slip into the role as Tucci's on-screen wife with ease.
She tells WENN, "Stanley and I are always on opposite sides in a very famous charades game during Christmas. We've been at each other's throats like married people for a long time, many years and we knew each other in that way.
"I've been in love with him from a far anyway with the totality of the man from Big Night to his directing work, in every way. It wasn't a tough job imagining being in love with him."
And the Oscar winner reveals Tucci is a wonder in the kitchen: "I once invited him over for dinner (to bond) with (his wife) Kate and I decided I'd make blanket de foie and it was not quite done when they arrived and so Stanley came in and completely took over the kitchen. We didn't eat until 11pm!"...
- 7/24/2009
- WENN
The making of the cultural phenomenon that was Julia Child had three key ingredients: a man, a meal, and a TV camera. Five years after Child’s death, as Meryl Streep plays the woman who revolutionized America’s relationship with food, the author recalls the wartime romance between Julia McWilliams and Paul Child, the bride’s life-altering first lunch (sole meunière) in France, and the 1962 television appearance that turned her into a star—and her book Mastering the Art of French Cooking into a bible.
- 7/6/2009
- Vanity Fair
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