Sarah Lancashire has no fear of playing Meryl Streep role

OHMYGOSSIP — Sarah Lancashire had no fear of taking on a role originally played by Meryl Streep.
The 57-year-old actress – who played ditsy barmaid Raquel Watts on ITV soap ‘Coronation Street’ in the 1990s and has since gone on to hold a starring role in ‘Happy Valley’ – has no qualms as she takes on the title role of US TV drama ‘Julia’ , a part made famous by Meryl Streep in the 2009 ‘film ‘Julie Julia’ because the project is “different.”
She said: “For me, it’s quite simple. It’s a completely different project and the nature of the project is different. The tone is different. You do 50 different Hamlets, you do 50 different actors, they’ll all be different. And so [playing the same part as Meryl] didn’t really occur to me.”
The original 2009 film charted the true story of Julia Child – a TV chef known for bringing French cuisine to the American public – and young New Yorker young New Yorker Julie Powel who attempts to cook all 524 recipes in her cookbook in 365 days, whereas the new HBO Max is thought to solely chart the life and career of Julia.
However, the former soap star went on to admit that the Meryl Steep film was of “benefit” to her research in that it brought the late chef to her attention but she eventually put all material away because the show is “not a documentary.”
She is quoted by The Mirror as saying: “The benefit from the film for me was that it was the first time I’d heard of Julia. Because she did not have a presence in the UK. But other than that, it didn’t really play any part in my preparation or participation of this piece at all. At some point, I put the written material away.It didn’t ­necessarily make sense with what we were trying to do, which was a drama as opposed to a documentary. I’m not a mimic. I can’t impersonate. Also, she did have this extraordinarily complex vocal change!”
‘Julia’ is set to premiere on HBO Max on 31.03.2022.

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