Streep's Charity Pleas Rejected By Child

2 months ago 08th Sep 03:55

Meryl Streep was shunned by Julia Child when she appealed to the U.S. culinary queen for help with a charity drive - 20 years before she went on to portray the chef in Julie and Julia.

The veteran actress plays Child in the new film, but it wasn't Streep'sfirst experience with the iconic cook.

She says, "I never met her, but I got a cranky letter from her once, when I wrote to her and tried to enlist her help with my work in the early Slow Food movement - an organisation that campaigns against fast food - back in 1989.

' She wrote a very brusque response, saying she wasn't interested

"I was working with this group that was trying to get people to eat more organic food, and I thought, 'Gosh, we should get Julia involved.' She wrote a very brusque response, saying she wasn't interested".