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Julie Powell, the blogger whose communicative was shown successful the movie Julie & Julia, had thoughts connected the mode she was portrayed onscreen. Learn her sentiment of Amy Adams’ adaption aft her Oct. 26 death.
Julie & Julia Author Julie Powell Dead astatine 49
Amy Adams didn't precisely travel a look erstwhile bringing Julie Powell to beingness connected the large screen.
The "Julie/Julia Project" nutrient blogger died connected Oct. 26 from cardiac arrest, per The New York Times. At property 49, she near down a bequest that includes that precise blog, a published publication titled Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen and the 2009 movie Julie & Julia, which stars Amy arsenic Julie during her travel to navigator each 524 recipes successful Julia Child's cookbook—and blog her mode done it.
As Amy shared successful an interrogation for the film, determination were definite traits that drew her to the relation of Julie.
"It was this beardown quality whose besides wholly flawed and grouchy and selfish and loving and confused," Amy said astatine the time. "She was a precise good architected character."
But arsenic Julie revealed successful her honorable reappraisal of the movie, she didn't consciousness her onscreen adaptation was 100 percent accurate. In a 2008 station shared to Julie's blog "What Could Happen?," she fto readers successful connected her thoughts aft watching a pre-release unsmooth chopped of the movie.
"I'm inactive benignant of reeling from the surreality of it all," Julie wrote. "But someway seeing yourself—or a Rom-Com-ed, slimmed-down, considerably little foul-mouthed mentation of yourself—on a movie surface is simply a full antithetic thing."
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Julie went deeper into what makes the existent her antithetic from the reel her successful a 2009 interrogation with Oprah.com, noting, "The Julie Powell portrayed by Amy Adams is nicer than I am—the cursing has been pared down a bully small bit! And, her edges are a little bit smoother."
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But fto it beryllium known, Julie inactive enjoyed the movie and the mentation of herself Amy brought to life.
"But, she does specified a beauteous job, and it is specified a saccharine representation of that twelvemonth and of that narration with my husband," Julie continued, "and I conscionable deliberation everyone connected [with the film] did specified a fantastic job."
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