Movie Brings Back 9/11 Memories

photo courtesy Mike Lewis, The Gothamist

This week, the movie Julie and Julia was filming in lower Manhattan. The film, due for a 2009 release, tells the story of Julie Powell (played by Enchanted's Amy Adams) as she attempts to make the more than 500 recipes in Julia Child's classic cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking," in one year's time from her Queens kitchen. The film also weaves in aspects of Julia Child's (played by Meryl Streep) life.

A small scene in the movie required Amy Adams to emerge from the subway and to walk pass a 9/11 memorial -laden fence outside of St. Paul's Chapel. Movie crews, therefore, had to recreate the memorial that covered St. Paul's Chapel's fence from 9/11 to November 2002.

Many people were taken aback at the sight of the memorial. Some expressed a need for a real one, and others, who perhaps didn't know about the filming, added their own mementos to the fence. The film crew allowed those momentos to remain.

For two more articles about this week's filming, click here and here.