Julie and Julia

Yeah, these sort of big projects are, um, th- they're certainly fun to, to take on, but at the same time it's that sort of commitment to see something through to its completion.

Um, which there is this wonderful naivety to the fact that we got, um, Julia's character, the fact she's writing a, a blog.

Uh, 'cause this is set in 2002, and she's, her day job is that she's working for the call center where they handle calls from, from people wanting to inquire about the, um, World Trade Center site and how it's been redeveloped.

So her whole job is that she's just there answering the phones.

And she basically finds cooking to be this escape for her, and at the same time she's just a big Julia Childs fan.

So she really sees a chance to combine the two things, the fact that cooking, which provides this order in all this chaos in her life, you know, the fact that, you know, you provide like butter, sugar, and eggs, as she says that, you know, you can create, it creates what it's supposed to, that it's got this sort of control.

And she feels that by writing this blog where she's going to cook every single recipe in, uh, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, that it's going to be this sort of like challenge that she needs in her life, especially because all her friends are off achieving things.

Um, one of them, like, proposes this idea that, you know, that, uh, you're supposed to know where your direction is in your 30s Which always makes me laugh, especially because, you know, some of the most interesting people I know still have no idea what they want to be in their 40s.

So the fact that this film's freaking out of, uh, over your 30s is kind of amusing really.

So-

Well-

Let's, um-

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I mean, freaking out over your 30s is something that I think people feel like it's like, oh, when you change from your 30... 20s to your 30s a lot of change happens.

It's like, it's like, you know, there's a lot of talk about, there's a lot of times that people, "Oh, you know," like, "Oh, when, when, when men head into their 40s, then they start having this like, you know, middle age crisis." You know? Like, [laughs] I don't know.

It, it's just, it, it's, I think everyone just has their own set of story, of, of, of path.

But I think that when we look at this story what, what really is important is that, you know, Julie, she chooses to do this mostly because one of the friends that she doesn't really like has started her own blog writing about basically blogging about everything about her, her.

[laughs] About like, about their own life, and she feels like if they can do it, why can't she who inspire, who aspires to be a writer, and at least has written half a novel that even though no one wanted to publish, this might be the chance for her maybe through this to kind of find herself, I guess.

Find back the writing inspiration maybe.

I don't know.

Give her a goal, give herself a goal.

Yeah.

And as I said, uh, already, it's got this wonderful sort of naivety to it when it comes to like the world of blogging.

I mean, the fact that she is just out there writing a blog, um, it really sort of took me back really to, to when I started blogging myself, and it wasn't about, you know, um, having a, a following as such.

It was just purely about the joy of writing something, about putting the idea out there-