“It was a real unusual thing for a woman to be that height, and I think it had an enormous impact,” Streep said. Child’s tallness was crucial to Streep as she developed the character. In Nora Ephron’s new movie, “Julie & Julia,” Streep plays Julia Child-the looming emissary of French cooking, who, upon arriving for the first time at Le Havre, as a “six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six-year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian,” feared that France was a nation “where the women were all dainty, exquisitely coiffed, nasty little creatures,” as Child wrote in her memoir. “I mean, it’s like having a clubfoot!” is how Meryl Streep puts it. If you are over six feet tall, solidly built, and female, your height is not a detail. It’s so daunting what he did.” Photograph by Ruven Afanador Ephron reveres classic romantic comedies: “Look at Lubitsch.
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