In honor of The SoundOfMusic's 55th anniversary, take a look back at our 2015 interview with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer
all I could think was, How will I ever live up to that? But we had a very good time. We never had a cross word, nothing.”“Who was it that called me a nun with a switchblade?” she asked.Is it true that Plummer shot only 11 days in Austria?“It couldn’t have been only 11 days,” she protested. “Come on.”
“Well, it’s the first time I’ve heard it,” he protested loyally. “It was hard to find playable scenes. Ernest Lehman, who was such a wonderful screenwriter, did marvelously onAndrews nodded. “There were so many potentially cloying possibilities. You were the glue that bonded us all together because you wouldn’t allow that and I tried not to.
“Classical music was my first love,” Plummer volunteered. “It’s given me such extraordinary joy and has been a huge influence on my work, particularly in the classics, where you have to know where the coda comes and where the climax. You make your own symphony out of the words. I do regret that I didn’t continue studying classical piano, which I started to do as a kid.”
We had gone from teatime to dinnertime. Andrews insisted I accompany them downstairs to the Regency Bar & Grill for a drink. There, they were joined by their road crew: Steve Sauer, Andrews’s manager; Rick Sharp, her makeup artist; John Isaacs, her hairstylist; Elaine Plummer; Lou Pitt, Plummer’s manager; and Pitt’s wife, Berta.
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