Julia Child Archives

Meryl Streep definitely looks the part of superchef Julia Child in this new movie still from the upcoming biopic Julie & Julia, out August 7.

But will she sound the part?

‘‘Meryl turned into Julia Child and did two sentences in her voice,” recalls director Nora Ephron. ”And I thought to myself, ‘Well, look no further.”’

EW says the movie will be “a mix of the chef’s memoirs and the true-life story of a bored secretary (Amy Adams) who spices up her life by tackling Child’s recipes.”

Stream cooking segments of the real Julia Child at PBS.org/juliachild.

BTW, check out this recipe. Julia’s French Onion Soup is sublime.

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.