“Sarah embodied that side of Julia in a way that felt really fresh and new.” “There is no real documentary footage of the private Julia,” Goldfarb notes.

She could live, sleep, and breathe Julia Child as she’d never quite done with a character before. One of the most challenging roles of her career took on an entirely new layer of difficulty-though it was also rewarding. “It’s not an experience I care to repeat, in terms of being isolated away from family,” Lancashire says.

to complete Julia in mid-2021, the world had changed: Save a two-week stretch, she couldn’t see her loved ones due to travel restrictions. By the time Lancashire had returned to the U.S. Then, a COVID-19 surge delayed the rest of the season’s production schedule to spring. Three days into shooting in Boston, in March 2020, the set shut down due to the pandemic, and didn’t pick up again until September, when she filmed the pilot. Her “year off” wasn’t meant to be-until, it kind of was. It was Sarah or nothing.”įortunately, Lancashire said yes. “We and the network decided that it was either going to be Sarah, or the show wasn’t going to happen…. “The body language and the essence of is so masterfully conveyed by Sarah, and she moves back and forth between the pathos and the comedy with complete ease-I don’t know anyone else who could have done that,” Keyser says. Goldfarb and his team made extremely long lists of candidates to play Child ( Joan Cusack was briefly attached but “that ended up not working out,” says showrunner Chris Keyser), and every single actor but one was ruled out. Little did Lancashire know that the project’s very survival had become dependent on her.

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