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?
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