Meryl Streep and Amy Adams at the Julie and Julia Premiere
Meryl Streep and Amy Adams walk the red carpet in New York City for their new movie, Julie and Julia, in which Meryl plays legendary chef Julia Child. Meryl, Amy and producer Amy Robinson say that they all gained weight during the filming. Meryl said she had to take off 15 pounds after the movie wrapped. The movie, which we can't wait to see, opens in wide release on August 7. Take a look:
We just love Amy Adams. From Enchanted to Doubt, she always lights up the screen. And we can't wait to see her and Meryl Streep in Julia & Julia. Amy poses for the August issue of
Allure magazine and -- not surprisingly -- she looks gorgeous. Here's some of what she had to say:
On being a celebrity: "You see yourself onscreen, or you see pictures of yourself, and it can get really heady...I don't think human beings are supposed to look at themselves that much."
On having to learn how to cook for Julia and Julia: "If it's something you see me do in the film, I learned how to do it. I learned how to poach an egg — which actually is a talent that comes in handy."
On her past experiences with blue eyeshadow: "I was homely. Painfully small, short, with too much blue eye shadow because I thought, It matches my eyes, so why not? Trying desperately to fit in."
On not having set a wedding date to fiance Darren Le Gallo: "I've been really busy, and I feel like a horrible fiancee that I haven't gotten swept up in the whole idea of a wedding. But I just haven't...Once you have a great man in your life, it allows you -- at least for me -- to look at yourself and grow as an individual. If I had known I was going to find this, my early 20s would have been completely different."
Amy Adams and Meryl Streep were fantastic together in Doubt. Now they are reunited in a much lighter story: Julia and Julia. Julia and Julia is the true story of a blogger who decided to chronicle her adventures as she recreated the recipes from Julia Child's famous cookbook over one year. The film contrasts the two women's life stories. The movie looks marvelous, we can't wait to see it. Take a look:
Meryl Streep will be playing master chef and spy Julia Child in a movie called Julia & Julia that will out August 7th. Entertainment Weekly says the film is 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." It's based on the book by Julie Powell. Director Nora Ephron told EW that Streep can do Julia Child's voice. "Meryl turned into Julia Child and did two sentences in her voice," recalls Ephron. "And I thought to myself, 'Well, look no further.'" Of course she can, she's Meryl Streep.
Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Phillip Seymour Hoffman star in the upcoming drama, Doubt, in which Meryl and Amy play nuns in the 1960s. Hoffman plays a priest who is accused of indiscretions. For the film, Meryl and Amy both were swathed head to toe in a full nun's habit. But Meryl didn't mind at all.
Some actresses might find the prospect of playing a nun -- dressed from head to toe in a black habit -- daunting, but not Meryl Streep, and not because, with her talents, she seems able to do anything.
"I found nuns' habits to be liberating, not only because they are a negation of things that women in the outside world have to contend with, but also because they focus on the true essence of a woman -- her face and her hands," Streep said while discussing her starring role in "Doubt."
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Both Streep and Adams met with the real Sister James, a 70-year-old nun after whom Shanley modeled Adams' character both in spirit and in name.
"She was fantastic," Adams said. "She was also so thrilled by it. They now call her Sister Hollywood. She was at the premiere and stayed longer than I did."
When Streep complimented Adams' performance, the latter dead-panned, "It takes a bitch to play virtue."
Although both actresses recently starred in musicals -- Streep in "Mamma Mia" and Adams in "Enchanted" -- there was no song and dance on the set of "Doubt."
"I kept on hoping," Adams said. "But there was no 'Dancing Queen' from Meryl."
A full habit certainly hides a multitude of sins. But it would be terribly hot in the summer. Doubt is in selected theaters nationwide now.
We all know what happened when Senator John McCain canceled an appearance on the David Letterman show. Letterman hounded him every night with jokes and videos until McCain finally appeared to apologize for his earlier failure to show. Meryl Streep appeared on the show to promote her new film, Doubt. She has a bronchial infection and a sinus infection, but she gamely showed up joking that she "was afraid to cancel." Meryl is our greatest living actress, so Letterman finally gets a bit paranoid and wonders: could she really just be acting? Take a look:
