Meryl Streep can sing, dance, play a nun, hunt for orchids, fight a custody battle, but can she cook? Well, who else would you expect to play longtime television chef, Julia Child? Many of us only know the Julia we saw on television towering over a chopping block talking in that funny accent. What a lot of us don’t know is how she started cooking and the ramifications her career actually had on the world at large.
Amy Adams is still a fresh face trying to find her place in Hollywood, but can she cook? Amy plays Julie Powell, an average person that seems to be stuck in her boring life until she has a great idea: what if she made every recipe in Julia Child’s cookbook and blogged about it for a whole year? One thing is for sure, that is a whole lot of butter to choke down in one year.
It sounds pretty easy, doesn’t it? Follow a cookbook for a year, and see where it takes you. Yet, as the movie will suggest the journey is not easy for either person. Julia had to climb uphill against a lot of opposition to get her book out to the masses and prove to people that anyone could cook. Julie needs something to get her out of a deep rut and prove to herself that she can be great no matter how uneventful her life might be. The really cool part about this whole story is that it is based on true events. Do a quick Google search, and find her blog so you can read up a little bit beforehand.
In August we’ll be able to see how difficult it was for both women when Julie and Julia hits theaters.
