Julia Child is back! Wait, why does she look so much like that chick from Sophie’s Choice?

Yep, that’s Meryl Streep playing the cookbook-writing, French Chef-hosting, larger-than-life character who was Julia Child. Streep has the main role in the upcoming movie Julia & Julia, directed by Nora Ephron. The film is in post-production but the studio just released the first photos, including the one above.

Details about the movie are still scarce, but the second Julia in the title apparently refers to a blogger named Julie Powell (played by Amy Adams) who tries to cook all 524 recipes in Child’s epic Mastering the Art of French Cooking. The movie also reportedly follows a part of Child’s life through her time described in the memoir My Life in France. There’s also something about Child playing a spiritual or ghost adviser to the Powell character, which would explain why Child is holding a cordless phone in the above photo.

Meryl Streep has made food news before. Back in the 1980s she was a spokesperson against the use of the pesticide alar on apples. Eventually the chemical was banned.

No word on whether the movie will delve into Julia Child’s non-cooking job. — Owen Morris