‘Julia’ Production Designer Patrizia von Brandenstein On Honoring Julia Child’s “Honest Approach To Life”
06.06.2022 - 22:33
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For Julia production designer Patrizia von Brandenstein, the most important aspect of her job was to recreate Julia Child’s home kitchen. While Julia, played by Sarah Lancashire, travels the world in the series, she always returns to her kitchen to work on new ideas.
Julia tells the story of Julia Child as she rose to prominence with her television show The French Chef. At the time, there were no cooking shows on television but Julia Child had a vision that she would not give up on. She went so far as to pay for the entire pilot episode of her show to prove that she could have an audience and that decision has changed how Americans thought of television and cooking.
Since it was important to recreate the kitchen down to the details, von Brandenstein found old photos and original designs that Paul and Julia Child drafted when they renovated their kitchen to fit Julia’s needs. Those archives proved vital for her whole team as they set out to recreate the kitchen exactly, down to the very last detail.
DEADLINE: What excited you about working on Julia?
PATRIZIA VON BRANDENSTEIN: I felt like I was very close to this woman when I started my research. She was an expert in teaching people how to cook and to appreciate what good food can do both for health and for pleasure. And Sarah [Lancashire] is extremely charming and channeled Julia in a way that I felt an obligation to finish it. I wanted the show to have the same kind of detail and care that Julia put into her food, her book, and her personal appearances. We had access to letters and papers that Julia and Paul had left to Harvard. I read a great deal about her, and learned a great deal from her personal letters, her home photographs, her recipes, and her scribbles on
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