Meryl Streep, actor saying “There’s a special responsibility you feel when you’re playing a real person. In this case, Julia Child is sort of a national treasure. Many, many people loved her for many years, because she was in the public eye almost from the first that women were on TV in any significant way, until she died, when she was close to 93 or something.. So she is a very loved figure. But also she has a wide and loving family who are living and care very much about how she is portrayed. So I sort of felt more of a responsibility to the family than I did to the fans. And, yeah, I wanted to get it right.”