Jane Fonda: "Our first scene together was in Sardi's after the triumphant opening of The Little Foxes. And Lillian Hellman walks across the floor at Sardi's and everyone's applauding. And Anne Marie, played in black wig by Meryl Streep, is following her. And the camera's taking both of us. And then I walk off camera and Meryl walks into camera and the camera stays on her. And I remember the next day I went to see rushes, I was by myself. And I saw this actress do something with her hands and her mouth...that told the whole story in one gesture, and my hair stood on end."
@@susieusmaximus5330 BOTH the film AND the part about Julia in Hellmann's mendacious book "Pentimento" are works of fiction. I assure you this has been definitively proven.
@@nicholasreid1836 Where did I say it hadn't? However, the person at fault is Hellman, not the filmmakers, who only made the mistake of believing her false account of her own life.
@@susieusmaximus5330 Fair comment, but the producers should have been wary of touching this project in the first place - it was already widely known to be an untruthful story.
@@nicholasreid1836 It really wasn't, though. The movie came out in '77, at which point Hellman was still a highly respected public figure. Mary McCarthy didn't accuse Hellman of being a liar on the Dick Cavett Show until two years later, and Muriel Gardiner didn't accuse her of having stolen her life story until several years after that.
Jane Fonda: "Our first scene together was in Sardi's after the triumphant opening of The Little Foxes. And Lillian Hellman walks across the floor at Sardi's and everyone's applauding. And Anne Marie, played in black wig by Meryl Streep, is following her. And the camera's taking both of us. And then I walk off camera and Meryl walks into camera and the camera stays on her. And I remember the next day I went to see rushes, I was by myself. And I saw this actress do something with her hands and her mouth...that told the whole story in one gesture, and my hair stood on end."
OH I LOVE THIS ANECTOTE! Thank you so much! It's so true. I feel it as a viewer.
Her and Katharine Hepburn are my fav actresses ♥️
Meryl Streep is a dream in 39's-40's clothes.
I would still leave after that like sorry excuse me 😂
Nice performance. Pity (as has been authoritatively proven) that this film was a work of fiction pretending to be a real-life story.
Not sure why you're making this about the movie, rather than the book it's based on.
@@susieusmaximus5330 BOTH the film AND the part about Julia in Hellmann's mendacious book "Pentimento" are works of fiction. I assure you this has been definitively proven.
@@nicholasreid1836 Where did I say it hadn't? However, the person at fault is Hellman, not the filmmakers, who only made the mistake of believing her false account of her own life.
@@susieusmaximus5330 Fair comment, but the producers should have been wary of touching this project in the first place - it was already widely known to be an untruthful story.
@@nicholasreid1836 It really wasn't, though. The movie came out in '77, at which point Hellman was still a highly respected public figure. Mary McCarthy didn't accuse Hellman of being a liar on the Dick Cavett Show until two years later, and Muriel Gardiner didn't accuse her of having stolen her life story until several years after that.