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After directing the Oscar-nominated “RBG,” Cohen and West traveled to France to talk with chefs and contemporaries of Child from her days of training at Le Cordon Bleu before becoming a TV star with “The French Chef.” In an interview with TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman at the Toronto International Film Festival, Cohen and West discussed how COVID-19 hit right as they finished filming and how the experience of editing the film under quarantine deepened their appreciation for both Child and French

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the filmmakers lingered over the encouraging role of her longtime husband, the lawyer Martin D. Ginsburg.

Julia,” the documentary we directed about Julia Child, was the piece de resistance of our filming experience. On the sidewalks of Paris’ 7th arrondissement, where Julia and her husband Paul spent their early years together, cafes pulsed with voracious patrons.

Julia Child — or even Giada De Laurentiis — she ain’t. On Paris Hilton’s new Netflix show, “Cooking with Paris” (premiering Aug. 4), the heiress whips up meals with various celeb friends — Kim Kardashian, Demi Lovato, Saweetie — and reveals that the kitchen, unlike an Ibiza foam party, is not her natural environment. “I love cooking, I’m not a trained chef and I don’t want to be,” Hilton says in the show’s opening. Turns out, Hilton doesn’t even want to wear an apron.

“Today, you have rock star chefs; Julia Child was the first,” says renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson (who you might recognize from the cooking reality show “Chopped“) at the beginning of the trailer for “Julia,” a new documentary from Sony Pictures Classics.

A Julia Child series is in the works at HBO Max!

HBO Max has picked up to series drama pilot Julia, giving an eight-episode order to the project based on the life of world-renowned chef Julia Child, from Chris Keyser (The Society, Party of Five), Lionsgate Television and 3 Arts Entertainment. The series, starring Sarah Lancashire and David Hyde Pierce, is scheduled to resume production late spring in Boston, where the pilot was filmed.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterHBO Max has given out a series order to the drama based on the life of chef Julia Child.“Julia” is inspired by Child’s life and her long-running television series, “The French Chef,” which pioneered the now popular genre of cooking shows.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the worldwide rights to the Imagine Documentaries and CNN Films documentary Julia,about Julia Child, the celebrity TV chef and cookbook author. The film, directed by Oscar-nominated RBG filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen, will be executive produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer.

Like the revelation that the dowdy French-cuisine evangelist Julia Child worked for American intelligence operations during World War II, there's something quaint and almost comic about the historical nugget upon which Jonathan Jakubowicz's Resistance is based: Before he became the most famous mime artist in history, Marcel Marceau worked in the French Resistance, forging passports and smuggling Jewish children across borders to save them from Nazi exterminators.

HBO Max is officially moving forward with a pilot order for a series inspired by the life of Julia Child, Variety has learned.

By Diane Gordon