Julie & Julia - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Julie & Julia or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Julie & Julia

[camila]

The film has Judith Jones stand Julie Powell up due to bad weather. Jones told the Boston Globe in August 2009 that, in fact, she had wanted to meet Julie "because I wasn't sure how you put a blog together and I also wanted to talk about recipe rights", but canceled because "Julia Child looked at her blog and didn't think Julie was a serious cook. There were all these four-letter words - that isn't how you describe food if you care and if you're a good writer. Julia thought we shouldn't have anything to do with it."

[riley]

Nora Ephron insisted that the actors not only ate for real but also fully played how tasty the dishes were.

[sandra]

Eric Powell's quote ("I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by") was originally made by Douglas Adams, author of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' (BBC Radio comedy - 1978). Eric explains this himself, immediately after delivering the line.

[ella]

Second of two collaborations between Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci. They previously appeared together in The Devil Wears Prada (2006).

[ken]

Julie is writing a blog entry regarding the botched boeuf bourguignon and the date on the entry says February 2001. Julie works for the LMDC post-9/11, and 9/11 happened in September of 2001 so the date should be February 2002.

[toni]

Paul Child was 10 years older than Julia Child, however in reality Meryl Streep is 11 years older than Stanley Tucci.

[albert]

This is the first Hollywood film at least partially based on a blog.

[claude]

Nora Ephron's last film.

[ava]

Julia Child and Simone Beck would collaborate on a second volume of "Mastering" in 1970; by that time Louisette Bertholle had remarried and was working on her own cookbooks. There was some discussion of a third volume of "Mastering" but Child and Beck would part ways professionally; Beck insisted on sticking to traditional techniques and equipment, and Child was enthusiastically embracing new techniques and finding ways of applying modern equipment to traditional recipes. While Child became an American TV personality, Beck continued to teach in France and published some of her own cookbooks. They were never to collaborate again but did remain friends for the rest of their lives.

[norma]

Both Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci, who portray Julia and Paul Child respectively, are mentioned in the memoir by Julie Powell that the film is partially based on.

[liam]

Julia Child was 6'2" tall. Meryl Streep is 5'6" tall. Paul Child was 5'9" tall. Stanley Tucci is 5'7¾" tall.

[lonnie]

Nora Ephron chose Stephen Goldblatt as cinematographer as he had previously worked with Meryl Streep on Angels in America (2003) and the two had got on famously.

[lonnie]

In her research, Nora Ephron was very surprised to discover that Julia Child and Paul Child had a very intense sexual relationship - which they both wrote about enthusiastically to their friends.

[scarlett]

Because of Meryl Streep's height (5'6") several camera/set/costume tricks had to be employed to mimic Julia Child's height (6'2"). Countertops were lowered, Streep wore extra high heels, and forced perspective camera angles were used.

[claude]

The car is a 1950 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon.

[bernice]

This is the second film to star Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. In 2007 they shared the screen in "Doubt." Meryl Streep was nominated for an Oscar for both movies.

[tom]

In the movie, Simone Beck and Julia Child have a contentious lunch with Louisette Bertholle in which Beck insists that because Bertholle has done so much less work on the book than they have, she should be credited as "With Louisette Bertholle" in smaller type under their names. Because Louisette reveals that she is going through a divorce, Julia takes pity on her and says that they should all be credited equally, in alphabetical order - which is how they really were credited on the first edition of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1. However, after Julia Child became a famous TV personality in America, later editions of the book featured her name alone and in large type above the title, with both Beck and Bertholle in much smaller type below the title.

[kylie]

Meryl Streep earned her 16th acting Oscar nomination for this film, but her loss to Sandra Bullock for her role in The Blind Side (2009) marked Meryl's record 12th consecutive loss at the Academy Awards (11 of these in the Best Actress category).

[charlie]

The suitcase in the beginning of the movie is Paul Child's own personal case.